Online games are now being played for over 60 minutes a day by over half a billion people worldwide, says Jane McGonigal.

In the United States alone, that number is 183 million.



Ninety-nine percent of boys under 18 and 94 percent of women under 18 say they play online games on a regular basis.

In an average, young men and women will rack up 10 thousand hours of gambling by the time they reach age 21.

That is about the same amount of time which they'll spend in their classrooms.

More than 5 million Americans are now spending over 40 hours a week playing online games, which is the equal of the time spent at a full time occupation.

The NPD Group, a financial-analysis company that monitors the sales of video games,'' claims that the U.S. games industry sold $6.71 billion worth of new games in 2012.



The best 10 best-selling games of 2012 were:



FarmVille is a highly-popular farming simulation social network game manufactured by Zynga in 2009.

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World of Warcraft holds the Guinness World Record for the most popular MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game), with more than 8 million subscribers as of March 2013 (Wikipedia).

Another popular video game is Clash of all Clans, which will be a combat strategy video game.

Totally free games, often known as freemium (free + premium) games, is a business model where the video game is given away for free, but the consumer has the choice of spending cash on a variety of video game enhancements.

This model is now popular on both mobiles and iPads.

Free games have been downloaded much more easily than paid games.

The freemium version seems to be the trend of the future cause many are getting reluctant to cover a game before they use it.

After a customer employs a game, they will usually be inclined to spend money inside that video game should they find it enjoyable and engaging.

As an example of the way the freemium model functions, consider the free game Clash of all Clans.