The sale of video games has massively increased in the last 10 years causing significant impact upon popular culture. This type of entertainment has really evolved in time and created a massive network of players from kids to adults. Games like MMORPGs which stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game are highly popular among the casual and hardcore gamers, this type game let you play in huge virtual world where you have to fight monsters, learn new skills and sometime buy or exchance cards,power or money.
Video games have had a huge impact in hollywood movies with more and more films getting produced like tomb raider and halo.Video games are great, everyone knows that, it excercise your mind, increasing your reflex, logic and improve interpretive skills.Console games, pc games and online games are everywhere, this has created a huge new market of billions of dollars which keep growing year after year.
Kids from all over the world play video games to probably escape the reality of life. When games are not too violent, they can offer critical and strategic thinking, cool games like chess or other types like the old command and conquer really makes you think. All the games like puzzles solving, strategy games can only be beneficial for the child or even adult.
Why are so many people addicted to games?
Think about it, we all have dreams, fantasy, when we play a game we sometime feel like being in it, and now with all this new technology like the Kinect motion sensor from Microsoft, reality and gaming are both part of the same world.
What will happen in the future?
The future games will be incredibly complex, the processors powering them will be extremely powerful, the video cards will have the possibility to calculate billions and billions of operations per second.
Imagine games in a world like the Matrix, where everything can be learned, changed, bent, this would be impressive but also beneficial for our world if used properly.
Think about someone which has been sent to prison, you wire his brain with a special cable which makes him feel like being somewhere else, in a beautiful world where he relearns everything about life, this virtual world would be controlling his mind in a very positive way.
The gaming industry is growing very fast, even faster than the music industry! The next important market move will be when Apple and Google will decide to create their own new console, this will be a very interesting fight between Sony, Nintendo,Microsoft,Apple and Google. Could it be around 2012? The next new generation of console will be very powerful, one problem will arise, the power consuption, will the new models having more cores,ram and bigger video cards use less electricity?