Video gaming is now a bigger industry than DVDs, box office revenues, movie rentals, music or even books. It is way beyond the arcade, dark basements and dorm rooms. It still includes your dungeon-dwelling, code-crunching roommate.
But it's bigger and broader than ever. This is thanks to the leadership of hardware brands like Xbox 360, Playstation 3, Wii, and Alienware.
And let's not forget the games themselves like Guitar Hero, Rock Band or the online MMO ( massively multi-player online) virtual economies like World of Warcraft.
Once, a more popular activities for the young male set, it has now spread out to the critical mass market and to a certain extent, the healthcare sector.
Video games emerge from the convergence of the twentieth century's two most important communication technologies - the computer and television and this "hybrid" is already profoundly changing the way children play and learn.
With so many strategy, first person shooter (fps), action, simulation, and role playing genres on the market, these games are stimulating the brains, hand movements and coordination, from the young to the elderly. Be it World of Warcraft, Sims, Call of Duty or Second Life, these games are universal, popular in virtually every part of the world.
With so many titles coming into the market, gamers are spoiled for choice. Here, at Video Games Actually, our goal is provide the reviews of the latest and more popular game titles churned out by those video gaming companies.
So, let the fun and thrill begins.
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