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Jupiter estimates that PC-based online games will generate $750 million in advertising revenue in 2006.
It looks like finally Sun Microsystems are starting to target the game audience. With it's release of the java.com website, it clearly shows that Java is a good competitor to Flash in online gaming.
Web based games are almost always less than 1 MB to download, since the ease of downloading the games is essential to the games success. The games are written on a variety of platforms including Java, Shockwave and Flash.
Example online game lists: Free Online Games Pictionary Scrabble Tetris Boggle
Some companies believe that the best way to attract players is to build social activities around there games. Also the increased cooperation between Hollywood and game developers will bond players to the games.
The web based market is the largest for online games with approximately 55 million players, compared to the smaller markets of massive multiplayer online games which has approximately 1.5 million players. The revenue per player is however much greater for massive multiplayer online games.
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