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Every game to sell over 1m copies in the UK
▻https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-04-12-every-game-to-sell-over-1m-copies-in-the-uk

UKIE and GfK hand-out special awards at London ceremony

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GfK releases new digital maps for Asia

▻http://gisuser.com/2018/03/gfk-releases-new-digital-maps-for-asia

GfK has released a new, completely overhauled digital map edition for all of Asia. The edition features coverage of 49 countries, ranging from the three BRICS nations Russia, India and China to smaller countries such as Bhutan. In addition to more granular coastlines, the digital maps depict the latest status of administrative and postal regions. Detailed, up-to-date digital maps are a prerequisite for accurate location-based market analyses.

Apparemment une importante sorce d’information sur les nouvells limits administratives dans ds pays « sensils »

China

Administrative: There have been adjustments to all administrative levels. The new map edition includes the latest boundaries for China’s 33 provinces, 343 prefectures and 2,879 counties.
Postal: Six-digit postcodes are available for China’s 50 largest metropolitan regions. This corresponds to 6,215 six-digit postcodes in the new map edition. The edition also includes comprehensive coverage of the country’s two-, three- and four-digit postcodes.
Topographic: The newly digitized maps feature substantially more detail in cities and along coastlines. Boundaries match the street/house level in cities for which six-digit postcode boundaries are available.

India

Administrative: For the first time, the India edition includes a map of the country’s subdistricts, which encompass 6,027 regions. In terms of the nation’s superordinate districts, 42 have been dissolved, 87 newly created and 51 newly named. All 707 regions received new IDs. At the federal state and union territory level, one state was divided, making 36 regions in total.
Postal: There have been only minor changes at the level of India’s more than 19,000 six-digit postcodes (PIN Codes). Exceptions are the states of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Mumbai, which have been completely overhauled.
Topographic: Most changes in this category affect the various city map layers. In terms of India’s cities with more than 5 million inhabitants, six new ones have been added since 2014. As a result, there are now eight cities in this population bracket. Among cities with between one and five million inhabitants, eight have been added, making 38 in total. There have also been many changes to the smaller cities, reflecting India’s dynamic structural development with its more than 1.3 billion inhabitants.

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GTA V was the third best-selling physical game in Europe last year - GfK
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-01-11-gta-v-was-the-third-best-selling-physical-game-in-europe-l

And it’s into its fifth year

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ERA: UK games sales hit £3.35 billion in 2017
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-01-03-era-uk-games-sales-hit-3-35-billion-in-2017

GfK and IHS data show significant growth of almost 10% in digital and physical sales

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Over 300,000 games consoles sold in the UK last week - GfK
▻http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-11-29-over-300-000-games-consoles-sold-in-the-uk-last-week-gfk

Black Friday was the 13th biggest day ever for UK games retail

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Why Do Men Harass Women? New Study Sheds Light On... | Personal Experiences with Rape Culture
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The report found that of the 4,830 men surveyed, as many as 31 percent in Lebanon to 64 percent in Egypt admitted to having sexually harassed women and girls in public, from ogling to stalking to rape.

Of course, street harassment is a global phenomenon. Studies have shown that vast majorities of women across cities in Brazil, India, Thailand and the U.K. have been subjected to harassment or violence in public. And the U.S. isn’t immune — 65 percent of 2,000 women surveyed said they had experienced street harassment, according to a 2014 study conducted by the research firm GfK for Stop Street Harassment, an advocacy group.

But there are a couple of things that stand out about street harassment in the Middle Eastern areas, according to the Promundo report. In the Palestinian territories,Morocco and Egypt, young men with secondary-level education were more likely to sexually harass women than their older, less-educated peers.

The researchers were surprised by the findings. Generally, men who have finished high school or college hold more enlightened attitudes toward women than those who have had no primary school or schooling at all, says Barker, who has studied men and gender equality in over 20 countries.

Barker and El Feki suspect that factors contributing to the behavior include the region’s high unemployment rates, political instability and pressure to supply their family’s daily needs. About half the men surveyed, for example, said they felt stressed, depressed or ashamed to face their families. Perhaps harassing women is a way to assert their power, suggests Barker.

These young men “have high aspirations for themselves and aren’t able to meet them,” he says. “So they [harass women] to put them in their place. They feel like the world owes them.”

In a place like rural Egypt, the situation is easy to understand, says El Feki. “It speaks to the mind-numbing tedium of being a young man [there],” she says.

They can’t find work. They can’t afford to marry. They’re stuck living with their parents. There is nothing to do. “They’re in a suspended state of adolescence,” she says.

The harassment is also a way for young men to “get their kicks,” says El Feki. When the men in the survey were asked why they sexually harassed women in public, the vast majority, up to 90 percent in some places, said they did it for fun and excitement.

That is not how women see it. “It’s not fun at all,” says Saleh. “It’s a nightmare.”

Holly Kearl, executive director for Stop Street Harassment and author of Stop Global Street Harassment: Growing Activism Around the World, says she is not surprised. “I’ve seen that reasoning before in other studies: ‘I’m bored. I’m bonding with my male friends. We’re just having fun,’ ” she says. “Men aren’t thinking about how women are feeling.”

The researchers at Promundo suspect that men’s motivations behind the behavior is not unique to the Middle East. “We know that street harassment is an issue around the world, and there are likely similar dynamics at play,” says Brian Heilman, a fellow at Promundo who helped write the report. “We just happen to have a rich glimpse of what it looks like in (this) region through this data set.” This report is the first time that the group has studied street harassment from the male point of view in-depth.

Women can experience a wide range of psychological effects from street harassment, says Kearl. Studies have shown that for women who are survivors of sexual violence, harassment can be triggering and traumatic. It also can make women feel unsafe, and as a result, they restrict their movement.

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L’Inde est le pays où on lit le plus | Slate.fr
▻http://www.slate.fr/life/84113/inde-pays-lecture

Les Indiens sont les plus gros lecteurs du monde. Avec 10 heures et 42 minutes par semaine à bouquiner, ils arrivent en tête du classement établi sur la base de l’étude World Culture Index publiée en juin 2013.

Même si l’étude n’est pas toute récente, elle reste d’actualité. Vendredi, @Amazing_Maps a d’ailleurs partagé la carte qui permet de voir en un clin d’œil les pays où on lit le plus. Une infographie sympa à (re)découvrir, réalisée par Russia Beyond the Headlines.

Les pays d’Asie sortent grands gagnants de ce classement : après l’Inde, on retrouve en effet la Thaïlande, la Chine et les Philippines.

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Et les résultats de l’étude pas récente ici
▻http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nop-world-culture-scoretm-index-examines-global-media-habits-uncovers-wh
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