Gaming Captures the Hearts of Gamers, Alleviates Loneliness, and Creates a New Market for Businesses by Paul W Wilson
Gaming is popular with teenagers, women, children, as well as men. Older people say they play games as it alleviates loneliness and puts them in contact with others. Statistics reveal that 41% of gamers are women and more than 43 % gamers are aged 25-49. ... Online gaming architecture has six business aspects: the subscriber; the advertiser; the gaming platform provider; the broadband service provider; the network service provider; and the gaming content provider. ... Analysts predict that by 2007 online gaming will be at least 285 petabits a month, the revenue generated by online...

Kids Online Games: Get Phat! by Scott Soloff
Kids online games are games that kids can play when they are connected to the Internet using either a computer or a video console [Examples: Playstation 2, Xbox]. Kids love games, and with kids getting net-savvier by the day they have latched on big-time to online games. ... They just love video console gaming because the learning curve is easy and there are not too many buttons to push (as in PC online games). ... Pros And Cons Of Kids Online Games Online games can keep kids entertained, and apart from that, improve their knowledge too if they play educational games.

Addiction to Online Games - And How to Cure It by Andrei Podberjoskin
"When players of massive multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPGs) talk about ""death penalties"", they refer to the resources they lose when the character they are playing dies. Usually this can be anything from invested time, items they acquired in long play sessions or their virtual... But in regards to the people who are affected by serious online gaming addiction, they represent only the tip of the iceberg. ... There are no statistics on the depressions that result from extensive immersion in virtual worlds.

Getting the Best Price When Selling Your Online Game Account by Aaron Crow
Sales of accounts for online games such as Dark Age of Camelot, World of Warcraft, and EVE Online are big business. Easily millions of dollars are spent on purchasing existing game accounts every year, but because it is big business, it means that there is a lot of competition. ... Also include any statistics about the account and an inventory of its valuable items. ... If you belong to a gaming guild, you could post on your message board that you want to sell the account. ... If your game account is not from a hot game, you might want to try shopping it around your gaming community before...

Voice Changer Vivifies Role Playing Games by Chris Martin
Since early 1990's, Online game has become a spectacularly booming industry in the world. International Data Corporation’s 2004 statistic showed global Online game’s income was $ 8.2 billion and an estimated of $22.7 billion in 2009. In China, the biggest online game market, those numbers were... The newborn Online game has dislodged PC game and Console game from their firm positions as Online game is always available for updating, creating new functions and expanding game world’s map. ... The phrase “MMORPG” (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) becomes more popular than ever...

What is XBox360? by Anil Kumar Pammidimukkala
Xbox 360 is the successor to Xbox video game console from Microsoft. It was referred to in the past as Xbox Next or Xbox 2 or simply Project Xenon. Microsoft has scheduled its launch just before Christmas of 2005, the biggest shopping season although it was unveiled on 12.05.2005 on MTV. ... When you upgrade to Xbox Live Gold, you get access to the ever exciting world of online multiplayer gaming. ... Xbox 360 Headset The Xbox 360 Headset enlivens the online gaming experience beyond your imagination helping you to talk to friends, your team mates to finalize strategies or trash talk your...

What is Fantasy Cricket Online? by Ella Wilson
Yes it is all about giving a free rein to all your fantasies. Imagine your favorite players can play a game of cricket and you can end up winning prizes. No, you do not have to go to the cricket field to actually see the game. All you require for playing fantasy cricket online is a computer that... Most websites offering a game of fantasy cricket online game to visitors have a section that describes in detail the rules of regulations for playing the game. ... Before you actually start playing a fantasy cricket online game, you must be properly aware of all the rules and regulations for...

The MMORPG phenomenon: Digital Addiction? by Brendon Kirk
For the uninitiated, MMORPG stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. The basic premise of these epic online games is that players from around the world converge on servers to do battle against computer driven opponents and often each other. ... Just like anything else that comes with the risk of addiction; this does not affect the entire gaming population. ... Knowing that you are only a few hours away from being better at fighting the monsters that haunt your online existence is a very good reason to keep playing.

Mind Boggling Information About The Popular Bingo Game! by Nimal Shapathiar
Have you ever considered mind boggling statistics of a BINGO GAME? The bingo game is the most popular online game in the world! Bing Crosby’s nickname as a child was “Bingo” Screeno, a form of the bingo game, was played in movie theaters during the Great Depression The casino game, Keno, is... (A light year is 6-trillion miles.) Alpha Centuri, our nearest star beyond the Sun, is only 4 light-years away. ... Here’s some more proof. ... If there were one million bingo game cards per inch of height, and all of the possible cards were put in one stack, the stack would extend for 1485...

Second Life is What You Make of It by Madison Lockwood
Second Life (SL) is a privately owned, partly subscription-based 3-D virtual world, introduced in 2003 by West Coast company Linden Lab. Users can visit this virtual world almost as if it were a real place via their home computer and an internet connection. ... According to their statistics, in mid October of 2006, the number of registered accounts in Second Life reached one million. ... An accomplished player with knowledge of the environment can meet a newcomer online and teleport him or her to a boutique, a nightclub, a resort - the tools of socialization are streamlined somewhat by...