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Black Hawk Mines Online Games More than 1.2 billion people are playing games http://reviews.blackhawkmines-online.com/2013/12/05/black-hawk-mines-online-games-more-than-1-2-billion-people-are-playing-games/ According to a state of the industry report by Spil GamesMore than 1.2 billion people are playing games worldwide. comScore data cited by Spil Games says, of those, about 700 million play online games. That amounts to 44 percent of the world's online population. "Many people don't know how big gaming is," said Oscar Diele, chief marketing officer at Spil Games, a maker of online and mobile games that are mostly targeted at girls. "Gaming is a huge part of people's online activities. It's really mainstream, crossing age and gender boundaries." It mashed the data together in a 17-page report that Netherlands-based Spil Games collected research from a variety of sources, including Newzoo, World Population Clock, comScore, eMarketer, Goo Technologies, PopCap, Cisco, SpotXchange, Brightroll, and Akamai. Spil Games an untapped market reaches itself to lots of girls, counting up to more than 50 million girls through its websites for both online games based on Adobe's Flash format as well as multiplatform mobile titles based on HTML5. Diele said in an interview with GamesBeat that developers should make their offerings like TV shows, with cliffhanger moments that keep the audience engaged. He also said that advertisers should start to spend more on video ads within games. "Not a lot of data is available, and that's why advertisers don't spend as much as they should targeting gamers," Diele said. The majority of Spil Games' revenue comes from ads. The data demonstrates that 46 percent of gamers are women and 54 percent are men. And such top categories for boys and men are racing, sports, and action games while for women the top categories for are puzzle, quiz, word, matching, and mahjong games. And the top categories for girls are cooking, dre