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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

MIT students celebrated the golden anniversary of Spacewar! - which is one of the first video games in history - by recreating it on a computer that can be handled on the palm of your hand.   Four students of MIT began creating the game Spacewar! during their free time in 1961 and finished it in February 1962. It was built on the Digital Equipment PDP-1, a computer unit around the size of an ordinary refrigerator. The game features two spaceships attempting to shoot each other down, with one of the spaceships under the control of the player.   Massachusetts' engineering students showcased their work at the museum of MIT.  This process of turning a 50-year old game to a modern one is almost likened to digital archeology.   It must be difficult to port it into a modern programming language for it is very low-level considering the time it was created. In addition to that, it used a lot of tricks specific to the machine it was first built on due to the limitations they had on the software.   The students transferred the software to the Arduino platform, a microprocessor the size of handheld gadget.   The game was not really meant for commercial purposes but only for the enjoyment of the creators. In fact, majority of Americans barely had access to a PDP-1 at that time. During the 1970′s it became a commercial success when it appeared in arcade platforms and personal gaming consoles like the Atari 2600.   This anniversary of Spacewar! came amidst the most recent sales figures of video games in the American market this month that showed a decline of millions.   According to a consumer group, sales of video games went down by 34%, despite the USD 1.14 billion sales. This is compared to sales figures of January last year. The outlook seems to be even more worse for video game consoles, sustaining a fall of 38% in sales.   Most experts are thinking that this decrease in sales is only because of the low number of new game releases. But several games did sell

MIT students celebrated the golden anniversary of Spacewar! - which is one of the first video games in history - by recreating it on a computer that can be handled on the palm of your hand. Four students of MIT began creating the game Spacewar! during their free time in 1961 and finished it in February 1962. It was built on the Digital Equipment PDP-1, a computer unit around the size of an ordinary refrigerator. The game features two spaceships attempting to shoot each other down, with one of the spaceships under the control of the player. Massachusetts' engineering students showcased their work at the museum of MIT. This process of turning a 50-year old game to a modern one is almost likened to digital archeology. It must be difficult to port it into a modern programming language for it is very low-level considering the time it was created. In addition to that, it used a lot of tricks specific to the machine it was first built on due to the limitations they had on the software. The students transferred the software to the Arduino platform, a microprocessor the size of handheld gadget. The game was not really meant for commercial purposes but only for the enjoyment of the creators. In fact, majority of Americans barely had access to a PDP-1 at that time. During the 1970′s it became a commercial success when it appeared in arcade platforms and personal gaming consoles like the Atari 2600. This anniversary of Spacewar! came amidst the most recent sales figures of video games in the American market this month that showed a decline of millions. According to a consumer group, sales of video games went down by 34%, despite the USD 1.14 billion sales. This is compared to sales figures of January last year. The outlook seems to be even more worse for video game consoles, sustaining a fall of 38% in sales. Most experts are thinking that this decrease in sales is only because of the low number of new game releases. But several games did sell well including Call of Dut