This is one of the biggest

video game fairs in the world.

The video game industry is huge.

65% of households in the United States

have one or more people

who play three hours, at least,

of video games per week.

And there are an estimated

34 million active gamers

just here in Germany.

That's about half the population

above the age of 14.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel

is getting into it herself.

But for a lot of people here

it's not just fun and games.

It's actually a full-time job.

We are on a quest to find people

who are playing video games for a living.

This honestly feels like an amusement park,

not a trade fair.

Okay, so,

we've made our way to Xbox.

This is a business

that's been around the industry

for quite a while now.

I actually started at Microsoft in 1998.

The first game that I worked on

was Age of Empires.

And when we started the Xbox program

at Microsoft I kind of leapt toward that.

I've been working on Xbox now

since the Xbox 360 days.

I'm really designing something

that I would love to use every day.

The average job in the U.S. gaming industry

paid a salary of $97,000 per year in 2016.

You don't even have to be an engineer

to make good money in gaming.

Programmers, artists, musicians,

it takes all kinds to do games.

We found Carlos Paton

who is the product manager

for Thunderobot in Europe,

which makes gaming products

like laptops and virtual reality sets.

This is a prototype now.

Carlos has been gaming since he was little

and now gets to play and test games

as part of his job.

When I have a little bit of free time,

what I really love to do is play games.

A lot of the gaming industry

is built around major franchises

like Star Wars or Super Mario.

How's it going Mario?

Gaming jobs have come a long way

from the days of arcades and consoles.

We found a lot of businesses

focused on casual gaming…

So I want to get the gold?

Which are games less experienced players

can download on their phones

or web browsers.

The popularity of casual gaming

has opened up new jobs in the industry…

Lose!

But it's still not for everyone.

Clearly I'm not quitting my job

to do this anytime soon.