-wanted to add this other link to that Sega post-
Livewire: New games are not all guts 'n' gore
biz.yahoo.com
>>...Some of the most innovative non-violent games are linked to Web sites where players take on other players in real time instead of playing against a computer. In fact, according to game industry officials at the convention, it's hard to find a new computer game that doesn't come packaged with some kind of online component....
>>...''Two years ago, if you went online to find games, there were about a million players on the top 10 sites. Today there are well over 10 million registered players, with some crossover from site to site,...
>>...Broadband, or high-speed, Internet connections, through cable TV or digital subscriber line (DSL) technology, will give online game networks a giant shot in the arm, game company officials said. For high-speed access providers, games represent some of the first interactive content that takes advantage of their ability to deliver hundreds of times more digital data per second than traditional dial-up modem connections....<< |
