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.
In some places online games have moved from the net to game lan conventions. Where people meet and play games in real life. It is becoming a bigger trend for game companies to arrange these kind of gatherings.
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.
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.
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.
Most popular web based games include puzzle games, card games such as solitaire and word games.
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