At the recent E3 show, there were more than 10 movie-based games being touted.
Touch-based games like Angry Birds can be comfortably played on the TV while relaxing on the couch.
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These early statistics show that fitness-based games are more engaging than just viewing progress on a chart.
It is allowing third-party developers to create browser-based games in HTML5, instead of native apps to each phone.
You can create games with pictures, which makes it more visually appealing than the text-based games of yore.
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In Nov. 2009, the company acquired a majority stake in Jolt Online Gaming, a developer of web-based games.
And more mobile gamers are moving thanks to location-based games and augmented reality.
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It leans much too heavily on the assumption that people want a device specifically to play Android-based games on.
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Fear of piracy has shaped the country's online games market, whose most popular products are multi-player PC based games.
Sony also said some 40 motion-based games would be available by the holiday.
After years of focusing on Web-based games, Zynga began overhauling its business last year to improve its presence on mobile.
In addition to its mobile games, Namco plans to release more downloadable PC games and free Flash-based games as well.
Meanwhile, browser-based games compete progressively more fiercely for eyes and dollars, offering progressively better graphics and a more immersive experience.
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But free-to-play, virtual goods-based games have been associated with casual, relatively simple social games, so will hard core gamers play them?
And that model needs to include browser-based games and mobile games, yet still address the higher-revenue generating segment of client-based MMOGs.
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The 33, 000-capacity stadium was selected to stage the Midland-based games of the Games after Villa Park was ruled out due to planned building work.
In fact, he thinks the the motion-based games Konami has published for the new systems will help the company see strong sales into the holiday season.
All of this is made possible by the diversity of available distribution platforms (browser based games, Steam, the App Store) but also the openness of new technologies.
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Nothing came close to matching the processing power that consoles had brought to the living room, but no one had really cracked the broader application beyond disc-based games.
Despite the weakening sales of consoles and console games, the growth of mobile, social and PC-based games means that total spending on gaming is actually on the rise.
Going beyond just tracking, Striiv Play has fitness-based games, personalized challenges, and social competitions designed to motivate people to be more active and help them reach fitness goals.
Others, however, are experimenting with putting flash-based games entirely online.
It comes after a tough year in which user numbers steadily fell as players switched from their mainly Facebook-based games to the more smartphone-friendly apps produced by rival firms.
Let France-based games publisher Ubisoft be your unlikely tutor.
The Flash-based games in "Re-Mission 2" mimic what the patients are going through in their therapy, but in a way that gamifies the treatment and involves the patient in "destroying" their cancer.
Console-based games giants Nintendo and Sony have steered clear of China, though privately imported boxes are available and Nintendo recently unveiled a games console designed especially to protect against the country's rampant software piracy.
Subscription-based games aren't the only potential uses here.
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Agawi will be demoing their cloud-based games streaming platform on Windows 8 devices at the Cloud Gaming USA event in San Francisco next week, September 11-12, where Agawi will also be delivering a keynote speech.
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Mobile gaming is a vibrant and exciting space and we don't see controller-based games replacing touch screen games, we expect them to enhance and enlarge the smart device gaming experience to include the living room experience.
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