Video game culture is a worldwide new media subculture formed by video games. As video games have exponentially increased in popularity over time, they have had a significant influence on popular culture. Video game cult…
Video game culture is a worldwide new media subculture formed by video games. As video games have exponentially increased in popularity over time, they have had a significant influence on popular culture. Video game culture has also evolved, hand in hand with internet culture and the increasing popularity of mobile games. Many people who play video games identify as gamers, which can mean anything from someone who enjoys games to someone passionate about it. As video games become more social with multiplayer and online capability, gamers find themselves in growing social networks. Playing video games can both be entertainment as well as competition, as the trend known as electronic sports has become more widely accepted.
Online Gaming
Online gaming has drastically increased the scope and size of video game culture. Online gaming grew out of games on bulletin board systems and on college mainframes from the 1970s and 1980s. MUDs offered multiplayer competition and cooperation but on a scope more geographically limited than on the internet. The internet allowed gamers from all over the world – not just within one country or state – to play games together with ease. With the advent of Cloud Gaming high-performance games can now be played from low-end client systems and even TVs.