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Video gaming is a young sector in Kenya. Though various start-up companies have appeared in the country since 2007, the existing businesses are dealing with funding issues and few successes have been made. However, shared spaces, support programs and government grants introduced over the past few years have allowed the industry to grow large in a short period of time. The introduction of broadband internet in 2009 spawned a generation of young ICT savvy people in the country and the Kenyan game industry is as of 2015 among the largest in Africa. ==History== The earliest known game development in Kenya was around 2007, when independent game designer Wesley Kirinya worked alone on ''Adventures of Nyangi'', a "crude" action-adventure video game inspired by ''Tomb Raider''. Despite the game's low quality, it gained a large amount of press coverage for being among the first video games created on the African continent. Kirinya later joined with Ghanaian game developer Eyram Tawia to form the company Leti Games, which was rebranded as Leti Arts in 2013.〔 In November 2007, NexGen was formed, a company by video game enthusiasts Nathan Masyuko and Ayub Makimei. Inspired in the mid-'90s by the Nintendo Entertainment System and works of Hideo Kojima, Masyuko built a gaming center in 2009 from where the company hosts gaming tournaments. NexGen has been taking efforts to get esports off the ground in Kenya, with limited success.〔 In 2010, Planet Rackus formed. The company released ''Ma3Racer'' on the Nokia Ovi Store, expecting around 10,000 downloads over a year, but the game became popular by its primarily African audience was downloaded over 900,000 times within that time span.〔 Kirinya and Masyuko have worked together with artist Chief Nyamweya to develop ''Haki: Shield & Defend'', an Android game reaching 250,000 downloads and winning a World Youth Summit Award, which Masyuko collected in Montreal in 2012.〔 ''Pamoji Mtaani'', developed by Warner Bros., won the Global Business Coalition’s Business Excellence Award in 2011 and globally recorded over a million sales after big names in the Kenyan music industry, such as Jua Cali and Kevin Wyre, were involved in its production.〔 Though in 2007, there existed only a handful of retail stores predominantly selling video games, this number has gone up in recent years. In 2009, Kenya laid the first of its underseas fiber optic internet cables, bringing broadband internet within reach for the population. The government has since invested more money in the development of digital infrastructure, making online gaming viable. In 2010, iHub was created, a physical area for Kenyan ICT entrepreneurs to come together. Various other businesses followed suit, supporting start-up companies "through a mix of entrepreneurship training, research, funding, working spaces and mentoring." According to Masyuko, these developments are "shifting Kenya at a very unprecedented pace."〔 The first 3D video game developed in Africa was released by Black Division Games in June 2015. The game, titled ''Nairobi X'', achieved a large amount of international coverage due to its high graphical quality and because it was released for PC as well as Android devices.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Is this Africa's first 3D video game? Aliens invade a nation and good citizens rise to its defence )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Video gaming in Kenya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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