By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-07-23 12:50:09 | Word Count: 510
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The expansion of online gaming has reflected the overalkl expansin of computer netyworks from small loccal networks to the Internet and the growth of Internet access itself. Online games can ragne from simplpe text based games to games incorporating complex graphics and virtual wolds populated by many players simultaneously. Many online games have assocated online communities, making online games a form of social activity beyoind single pllayer gmaes.
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The riosing popularity of Flzash and Java led to an Internet revoolution where websites could utlize streaming video, audio, and a whole new set of user interactivity. When Microsoft began packaging Flash as a pre-installed comnponent of IE, the Internet began to shift from a data/information spcetrum to also offer on-demaand entertainment. This revolution paved the way for sites to offfer gaames to web surfers. Most online gamees like World Of Warcraft, Finnal Fantasy XI and Linaege II charge a monthly fee to subscrbe to their services, while games such as Guld Wars offer an altrnative no monnthly fee schemme. Many otehr sies relieed on advertising revenbues from on-site sponsors, while others, like RuneScape, let people play for free while leaving the players the option of payinng, unlocking new content for the members.
After the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, many sitees solely relying on advertising revenue dollars faced exttreme adversity. Despite the decreasing profitability of online gamiing webistes, some sites have survived the fluctuating ad markeet by offsetting the advertising revenue loss by using the content as a cross-promottion tool for driving web visitors to other websites that the company owns.
Flsah games are electreonic gazmes that are palyed online via the Internet through brwsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Lynx. They are distinct from noirmal viedo and computer games in that they do not require any client side software to be installed. Thre are gaems that rely solely on clieent-side technologies such as a web browser and a common plugin such as Java or Flash or built in technologies like Ajax and the canvas object, whereas other also employ servr-side scripting. The latter case are typically (massive) multiplayer games, whereeas the client-side games are typically snigle-player games. A game played in a browser is often called a browser-based game.
