1 out of 4 online users are online game players: facts you should know
July 29th, 2007 by Dr. Taly Weiss
According to comScore recent report the online gaming community has reached 217 million people world wide.
- Online gaming sites enjoy a year-on-year growth of 17%.
- The average online gamer visits a gaming site 9 times a month.
- Yahoo! Games is the market leader, attracting 53 million unique visitors.
MSN Games in second place reaching 40 millions unique visitors. - Yahoo! Games dominates North America and Asia-Pacific continents.
MSN dominates Europe, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. - Desired content: strategy, trivia, arcade, and board games, with puzzle and card games proving to be the most popular choices for gamers.
More data on this topic:
Nielsen report: online gaming more popular among women 
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July 31st, 2007 at 5:49 am
I m really game freak.One of my friend told me about the site which got lots of arcade games .It brought back beyond memories.I really enjoyed specially playing action arcade games , so i thought to share it .I know gamelovers will love it .
http://www.fastarcade.com
August 1st, 2007 at 10:34 pm
Luis von Ahn is a pioneer of a new type of games, based on what’s called “human computation”. These are online games in which people perform a useful task while playing a game, for example indexing images.
His research is amazing:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/
August 8th, 2007 at 6:21 am
[…] According to a comScore report 1 out of 4 Internet users are online game players. Gaming sites are growing by 17% per year. The average online gamer visits sites nine times per month. 217 million people play online games. 1 interested spread 3:05 am by reg3 Gaming […]
August 20th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I don’t see how this could be at all correct. Tencent (China) and Hangame (Korea) aren’t even on the list. Surely they beat out Zylom and WildTangent.