Social Gaming Time to stop playing by yourself
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Date: 10th March 2011
Date: 14th March 2011
Venue: Olswang, 90 High Holborn,WC1V 6XX
Time: 18.00 - 21.00
Tickets; £35+VAT
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Social gaming commonly refers to playing games as a way of social
interaction, as opposed to playing games in solitude, like some card
games (solitaire) and the single-player mode of many video games. One
hundred million people are playing these games and about $1 billion in
revenue is expected this year.
Social gaming is also changing the
stereotype image of games players and through the fast pace of
technology changes helping gain adoption for platforms like facebook in
the US/Europe and RenRen in China, more so in China the adoption of
social gaming into the culture has helped drive the adoption rate of the
social networks.
Popcap games commissioned Information Services
Group to perform a survey of people who play social games online. It
found that the average social gamer is a 43-year-old woman, despite
long-standing social stereotypes about people who play games. The survey
also found that 55% of social gamers are female, are more avid gamers,
38% of females said they play multiple times a day. Women are more
likely to play with people they know (68% vs. 56% for males)
We will be debating the future, impact, value and role of social gaming.
