6 Awesome Gaming Related Careers You Didn't Know Existed

By siliconindia  |   Monday, 08 June 2015, 17:30 IST
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BENGALURU: The gaming industry offers several opportunities for a good career. There are numerous gaming conferences as well as tournaments, which offer perfect platform to rise and shine. Some of the tournaments are recognized by sports channels like ESPN and many more. However, for a company dealing with creation of games, the jobs being offered are completely unique. Let us look at these jobs in the gaming industry, as compiled by Cracked.



Competitive eSports Athlete



Gaming tournaments were not accepted as official sport; however, United States has recently recognized these tournaments as official sport. In order to play in such tournaments, your gaming skills should be at the peak so that you can score better than your opponent.



Anti-Cheat Software Engineer



When you are stuck at some level while playing a game, many would try to apply some method of cheating. The gaming companies take their game play experience very seriously and thus, they employ Anti-Cheat Software Engineer, to check for loopholes in multiplayer gaming.



Team Manager (And House Mom)



In sports, Manager is responsible for several things related to handling the team and game as well; however, the duties of a manager are entirely different for managing a team of eSports Athlete. The team manager ensures that the proper diet is being taken by the players along with extra duties such as playing music to relax the player’s tired mind.



Professional Twitch Streamer



Everyone loves a good entertainer. Same is the case with Twitch. Many people around the world enjoys to watch others playing games and if the person playing the game is good with entertaining his audience, then he can surely make good money. All it requires is a good internet connection and a gaming device, on which games will be played.



Shoutcaster



Any sport is incomplete without a commentator. There are commentators for football, cricket and every single game played on this planet. Similarly, a career in becoming a commentator for eSports is also considered as a career track for those who enjoy talking about games.
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