Counter Strike, Warcraft, Jedi Outcast; we’ve heard these game titles before and we all know what they focus on… online gaming. A few years back we wouldn’t even thought that a service like this could be brought from the computer and placed within our regular gaming counsel. However, with the emergence of the X-Box, Playstation 3, X-Box 360 and soon to be the Playstation Portable, no more will people have to log onto a regular computer for these services anymore. These new systems have converged so much technology and media options within their systems now days. No longer are they just met for simple play at home gaming. They have gone to the next level and now we the gamers can connect to other people around the world.
This commercial for Mountain Dew’s Game Fuel is the perfect example of how much things have changed from the days of the simple Sega Genesis.
Even more so, these online games transformed into online communities forming around that game or subject. I have found that with my first online game NHL 08 for the PS3. Everyone forms or joins into a specific league, starts communicating on the PS Network, talks hockey or trash on head sets, battles for rankings; it’s really been new and different experience.
So what is next for the online gaming? I cannot say. Though it’s obvious the next advancement in online communications will be apart of it.
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And if you ask the people working on gaming in DMS they'll say the next step in digital gaming is humane gaming. Here are a few examples by Rafael Fajardo.
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