Finding ways to switch off through online game playing

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Many people think that playing games on a phone or tablet is just for kids. But more and more of us adults admit to playing games on our phone to help us de-stress and unwind from a busy day at work or to help us to relax in an evening. Many adults even admit to taking their phone into the toilet with them to play a game! A recent study showed that the average adult spends almost 4 hours each day playing on their mobile device. Now this also includes accessing social media, so isn’t all gaming but a fair amount of that can be attributed to a bit of... Read More »

Online Gaming – Watching Other Gamers to Learn

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Playing video games online has become increasingly popular. Lots of people will now watch others play online in order to learn how to play games better. This has become big business for some and there is now such a thing as game professionals – people who play games online and make a living out of it. If you want to learn some new things about your favourite games, consider using online platforms to improve your game. Watching games online isn’t cheating, as some people might think. Lots of the players who watch others have already completed the games themselves and just want to learn new ways of completing them. You... Read More »

Short term objectives for a small online review website

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Take note of the below which is an example subset of goals and objectives used for a small online review website in building up a community following which would be used to generate social signals and rank high on the SERPs. These could be used to improve your own website in the long run;  Achieve 30,000+ Page views per month.  Gather ATLEAST 500+ Forum members.  Promote the group ABOVE 6,000 Members  Achieve an overall community group of 40,000 on Twitter/Facebook/Steam  Upload ATLEAST 20 Youtube Videos a month.  Obtain 3 more authors to complete the team. Our current count is 6 journalists.  Complete a... Read More »

DOTA 2 Massive MOBA Popularity

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You may or may not of heard of a little game by Valve called DOTA 2. With 10,930,000 unique players in the last month this is the Half-Life developers flagship title at the moment. DOTA, stands for Defense Of The Ancients and MOBA means Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. Combine the two and you get a game which garners a worldwide audience and one of the most lucrative professional gaming scenes on the planet. All types of gamers dip in to try DOTA 2, from casual noobs to competitive gaming veterans. Some leave, but many players stay. So what makes is it that makes it so popular? When you try DOTA 2 for the first... Read More »

History of Online Games

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Online games have been around since the internet began in one form or another, but we’ve seen some great developments over the years. This was always going to be a massive part of the gaming industry, as there is a lot of opportunity in the multiplayer aspect of gaming that online gaming provides. We saw some of the first advanced games come out with ones like Everquest, but they tended to be undisciplined, and unrefined. Following on those early innovators coattails, you have the juggernauts which appeared in the early 2000’s, with Blizzards WOW (world of warcraft), which is an MMORPG which has absorbed the time and money of millions... Read More »
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