Paradise Game—an e-sports and e-learning hub officially launched its Paradise Gaming Centre in West Africa. The new gaming centre is situated at Cosmos Yopougon shopping mall, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
The centre features about 1200 sq. meters of space and is equipped with up-to-date technology that aligns with e-sports promotions in Africa. The hub will train e-sports players for international competitions and also serve as hosting space for e-sports tournaments.
The hub will carve the opportunity for video game enthusiasts to enjoy the latest games whilst they prepare for FEJA (Festival de l’Électronique et du Jeu Vidéo d’Abidjan/The Electronic and Video Game Festival of Abidjan), the largest e-sports event in Africa.
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Paradise Gaming Centre will officially commence operations in September 2019. The operations will begin with an 80m² room that is set aside to host middle school and high school students training sessions on robotics, video game development and computers. The centre will host the first ‘Ed-tech & E-learning program’ of Yopougon. Through this program, teachers, students, entrepreneurs and startups will collaborate innovative educational tools for Africa.
Paradise Game said these afro-mentioned initiatives target the youth directly and get them actively involved in virtual intelligence, robotics and artificial intelligence. The hub said they aim to offer entertainment for parents and children. They aim to improve parent-child relationships via different activities and games.
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