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5 unusual facts about Online game


Itsagoal

Itsagoal (also known as IAG) is a browser based, online football management game which is free to play.

Online gaming

Online game, a game played over some form of computer network.

Traffic classification

Peer-to-peer file sharing applications are often designed to use any and all available bandwidth which impacts QoS-sensitive applications (like online gaming) that use comparatively small amounts of bandwidth.

Web mortem

Online gamer and distinguished dean at University of St Andrews; Hammond MacLeod finds the body of his current mistress.

YNK Korea

The company originally concentrated primarily on a game marketing and a character licensing of Blizzard Entertainment then it started to focusing on onlnie game contents publishing.


FUN! Online Games Magazine

This bi-monthly publication focuses on the online gaming world, with feature articles on games such as Webkinz World, Free Realms, Build-A-Bear Online, Neopets, Club Penguin, Toontown Online, Shining Stars, TY Beanie Babies, Pokémon, Wizard 101, Pixie Hollow, and more.

Ironclaw Online

Ironclaw Online (often abbreviated as "IC" or "ICO") is an online multiplayer storytelling anthropomorphic fantasy produced by Skotos.

Sissyfight 2000

Sissyfight 2000 (stylised as SiSSYFiGHT 2000) was a turn-based strategy online game developed by the Word online magazine staff, including executive producer Marisa Bowe, producer Naomi Clark, lead programmer Ranjit Bhatnagar, and art director Yoshi Sodeoka, with game designer Eric Zimmerman.


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Aventurine SA

The project "Development, Marketing and Distribution of the Subscription-Based Online Game Darkfall" was funded by the Information Society under Measure 4.3 "Advanced telecommunications services for the citizen", for the Action "Funding of Enterprises for Implementation of Advanced Broadband Services".

Ben X

To escape his harsh reality, he turns to a virtual world by playing an online game, ArchLord.

Bionicle Chronicles

:Sources: Mask of Light movie and its novelization, Bionicle comic #13-15, Mata Nui Online Game 2, "The Legend Continues" interactive story

CyberStrike

Initially exclusive to the GEnie online service, it opened in February 1993, and later that year it caused Computer Gaming World magazine to create the new category of "Online Game of the Year" so it could be awarded to CyberStrike.

David Whatley

The first of its type, it caused Computer Gaming World magazine to create the new category of "Online Game of the Year" so it could be awarded to CyberStrike.

Game studies

In her book Play Between Worlds, T. L. Taylor (2006) recounts her experience playing the massively multiplayer online game, Everquest.

Gronkh

It was initially dubbed a test recording for the online game Allods Online on his YouTube channel.

J. Todd Coleman

March 2011, named the #1 Most Influential person In the Massively Multiplayer Online game industry by Beckett Massive Gamer Magazine, a Beckett Media publication.

Kelton Flinn

Air Warrior (1986) — This game, offered on GEnie, is a key milestone in the history of computer games because it was the first commercial multiplayer online game to add graphics, displaying a 3D airplane dogfight environment.

Kre-O

Kre-O Cityville Invasion is the fifth line of Kre-O sets, based on the popular CityVille online game series.

LifeChurch.tv

Easter Sunday, 2007, LifeChurch.tv began broadcasting from their new campus in the online game Second Life.

Microsoft Ants

During this time, Steve Murch, a then-employee of Microsoft, convinced Bill Gates to acquire a small online game site (then owned by Electric Gravity).

Monk's spade

It has been widely used in kung fu cinema (notably by Lau Kar-Fai in The 36th Chamber of Shaolin), and is used by the Shaolin priest in the online game Dragon Fist II and by Abbot Song in Jade Empire.

Online identity

Recently, a user of a massively multiplayer online game called Everquest, which is owned by Sony Online Entertainment, Inc., attempted to sell his Everquest identity on eBay.

Panda3D

Over time, Panda3D was used for additional VR rides at Disney theme parks, and was eventually used in the creation of Toontown Online, an online game set in a cartoon world, and later for the second MMORPG, Pirates of the Caribbean Online.

Richard Gilliam

He devised the Movie Links online game in 1990, and it was played extensively on GEnie four years before the quite similar Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game was promoted in 1994.

Silent Death

When ICE went bankrupt, the rights to Silent Death were purchased and used to make an online game, Silent Death Online, which was itself discontinued in 2001.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I

Not long after Sonic 4 was officially announced, rumors surfaced that the game was available to members of the Xbox 360's online game testing service for developers, PartnerNet.

Squidoo

In Squidoo's early stages, Godin noted that Martha Stewart and Jane Goodall's lenses did not receive large amounts of traffic, whereas lenses on MySpace and the online game Line Rider were among the site's most successful.

Thingsoft

Thingsoft was originally established in 2005 with funding from Neowiz, a large South Korean online game publisher.

Ultimate Knight Windom XP

In this version the game-play was modified to resemble the PlayStation 3 Gundam game, Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme Vs., and an option to create an account for online game-play was added.

Worldwide Biggies

The Princess Bride Online Game: the official online animated game companion to the classic hit movie to launch summer 2008