China’s online gaming industry is worth $13.5 billion and spans 190 million people, from mini-games on WeChat to MMOs at internet cafés. At Chongqing Energy College, people can even take a course in one of China’s most popular online multiplayers – Defence of the Ancients.

Today, the average young person will have spent 10,000 hours playing online games by the age of 21. Spending such an amount of time on anything will theoretically make you an expert, and increasingly people are putting their online gaming achievements on their CV.

Are Beacons going to be big? Will people actually start to wear smart watches? How will tablets develop and which technology brands are the ones to watch? As part of our Expert Outlook 2015 series we speak to three technology experts about the future of smartphones, gaming and technology in store.

The Chinese gaming industry has expanded dramatically over the past decade, but due to stringent government regulations it is largely inaccessible to foreign companies. This, however, may be set to change...