Unique marketplace: Gamers can now trade in-game items, which can range from weapons used in games such as Activision Blizzard's Call Of Duty to furniture for Electronic Arts' life simulation game Sims.
FRANKFURT: Normally the place to buy or sell shares in Germany's top companies, Deutsche Boerse is launching a new exchange for people to trade virtual goods from video games, tapping into a multi-billion US dollar market.
The stock exchange operator, in the process of merging with the London Stock Exchange, has formed a joint venture, dubbed Switex, with Hamburg-based fintech start-up Naga Group AG to set up the new platform, it said on Thursday.
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