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Game streaming is becoming a serious professional choice for youth

Gamers have to put in 12-15 hours a day when they begin playing new games, since they need to make sure that the audience is entertained as well

Mansha Kunwar Rathore
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Abhijeet Singh, a second-year engineering student from West Bengal’s Naihati city, plans to drop out of college and turn into a full-time game streamer, which will fetch him dual benefits -- an income and recreation.

Live-streaming gaming, which includes video games as well, has turned into an industry worth around $1 billion in India, and expected to touch $5 billion by 2025. Recent reports suggest that the industry could scale up to $13 billion worldwide by then.

It has been over two years since Singh started game streaming (when he watched it on YouTube), and he now streams on Rooter,

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