Gaming has reached new heights these past couple of years. The new age of gaming is product of a fast paced evolutionary development. Nowadays, online gaming has earned the top spot in the world of gaming.
Since the dawn of the first console game, this type of entertainment has captured our hearts. Atari and Nintendo were among the first to be on the playing field. Later on, Nintendo released the SUPER NES, Gameboy and Nintendo 64. A couple of Sega branded consoles also came out of the market. And in the midst of them all, Sony released its PlayStation.
Aside from video game dedicated consoles, game developers also made games for desktop PCs. The advantage of this platform is its flexibility and expandability. Consoles are limited to the hardware that they are built with. PCs have expandable hardware, hence more games. From the 8 bit Prince of Persia, to the most popular game in the World Cyber Games, StarCraft, and PCs are the ultimate gaming console. StarCraft, WarCraft and Diablo probably sparked the beginnings of the online gaming community. Blizzard offered to players Battle Net, its online gaming community allowing players to meet opponents online.
As technology developed at the speed of light, consoles also gained the capacity to connect to the internet. PS2 came out with an Ethernet port, same thing with Xbox. During the same time, online games like Ragnarok started becoming popular. The difference with online RPG games is that the graphics were not that much of a focus. But what made online RPG games popular was that socialization was possible in this online world.
Currently, hard core online Games are called MMORPG or Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games. Hard core graphics, state of the art programming, and fast connectivity have made people hooked on modern online games. Its like creating a fantasy version of yourself and living a childhood dream through the makeshift world of the computer game. It lets people live adventures and be in fairy tales.
The PlayStation Network and Xbox live offers hard core online gaming. With these new console games, MMORPG are also offered.
Nowadays, online games are also available in 2d form for smartphones and tabs and samples of them are Dress Up Games and fight games. Dressup Games do not require hard core graphics; they only require basic 2d animation.