Online gaming: easy entertainment

Internet gaming has grown over the years. Millions of people worldwide are caught up in a whirling vortex of online gaming and the number of addicted people is increasing with each passing year. The addiction of gaming began with hand-held video game devices on which children could play simple games such as Tetris, Car Racing and Feed the Snake.

Nowadays, video games have become essential part of gadgets. Mobiles, computers, tablets TVs and set- top boxes come loaded with games such as Sudoku, Cricket, Solitaire, Tetris, etc. Users can instal third-party sophisticated games on their computers which are played on Play Station and X-Box. There is a huge market for games on Android or iOS enabled smart phones and they can be bought from their respective stores.

Fast broadband Internet connection, interactive social networking game applications and availability of games as browser add-ons have given a boost to online games. The success of online games such as Angry Birds, Farm Ville, Fruit Ninja, Mafia Wars, Bejeweled, etc., can be gauged by the number of users playing them online.  More than 700 million copies of Angry Bird alone have been downloaded on different platforms since its launch in 2009. According to Facebook blog more than 236 million people play games on the social networking website.

There is a variety of games available such as arcade games, racing games, war games, strategy games, word games and sports games on hundreds of gaming websites. There are many websites on the Internet for playing different kinds of games.

Zynga.com has one of the largest collections of free games and the site claims that it has over 240 million monthly users. Some of the most popular games available on the website are CityVille, Zynga Poker, Draw Something, Hidden Chronicles, FarmVille, CastleVille, Words With Friends, Empires & Allies, Scramble With Friends and Mafia Wars. A Bit Lucky is a developer of high-quality games such as Lucky Space and Lucky Train that are among some of the highest-rated games on Facebook. The games designed by this developer are available on Facebook and other social media platforms.

Roundgames, Gamesam, Addictinggames are a few websites which regularly update their database of flash-based games. Twoplayergames.com and Flyordie.com have a large collection of multiplayer games that are played by two or more players simultaneously and then scores are tallied. A few websites such as Zapak.com and other are websites that allow game developers to submit their games. One should regularly update browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash Player for playing online games because most of these games are flash-based.