PM Modi interacts with gaming influencers

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 13 released a video of his interactions with several online video game influencers that was filmed at his official residence in March. Mr. Modi is accompanied by Tirth Mehta, Animesh Agarwal, Anshu Bisht, Naman Mathur, Mithilesh Patankar, Ganesh Gangadhar and Payal Dare, who go by different stage names online. I met with them.

The support for gamers comes as a record number of 1.85 billion 18- to 19-year-olds are registering to vote in the general election in the coming weeks. Gaming is one of the most popular video categories on YouTube in India.

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Mr. Modi played Raji, a multi-platform adventure game available on Indian-made PCs and game consoles.he also played stumble guy, a multiplayer survival royale game.He performed with a virtual reality headset beat sabera rhythm game.

The Prime Minister discussed career choices with influential people. (“We spend six to seven hours on him practicing,” the esports gamer told him.)

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games and gambling

Mr. Modi discussed the distinction between gaming and gambling, something video game developers were keen to disambiguate last year. “We need to break up [real money gaming] and skill-based We are playing a game,” Agarwal, also known as 8bitthug, told the Prime Minister.

“There is no need for regulation,” Modi said of the video game industry. As Agarwal further spoke about the need to separate real money games from video games, the Prime Minister asked gamers to send their suggestions in writing.