{"id":175,"date":"2007-07-10T23:12:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T22:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-07-10T23:12:28","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T22:12:28","slug":"online-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Online gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <strong>ComScore<\/strong> (via <strong>Techcrunch<\/strong>), 217m people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/07\/10\/217-million-people-play-online-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">play online games<\/a>. That&#8217;s 28% of all people online, doesn&#8217;t including gambling sites and marks a 16.% increase on May 2006.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>ComScore Europe<\/strong> managing director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comscore.com\/press\/release.asp?press=1521\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Ivins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With one in four Internet users visiting a gaming site, playing games online is extremely popular. The fact that these websites are pulling in over a quarter of the total worldwide Internet population shows what a global phenomenon gaming has become. The potential of the online gaming arena should be especially appealing for advertisers, as the average online gamer visits a gaming site 9 times a month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The site gives a regional breakdown which shows certain gaming sites are favoured in certain regions. For example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zylom.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Zylom <\/strong><\/a>attracted 10.3m Europeans but only 484,000 Asia-Pacific users (these two geographical regions had the most online gamers overall).<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done much in recent years, in fact I&#8217;m pretty sure the last time I played over the net it was either going head to head with a friend in <em>Command and Conquer: Red Alert<\/em> or getting my backside whipped by somebody at <em>Quake II.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I feel so old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ComScore (via Techcrunch), 217m people play online games. That&#8217;s 28% of all people online, doesn&#8217;t including gambling sites and marks a 16.% increase on May 2006. According to ComScore Europe managing director Bob Ivins: With one in four Internet users visiting a gaming site, playing games online is extremely popular. The fact that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,39,42,66,72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}