Gettysburg is also the first Sid Meier game to feature online play and multiplayer options.
Sony is leaving it up to the game publishers to charge for online play.
"I think online play will revolutionize gaming, but it's not going to happen next month, " says Meier.
The 27-year-old real estate agent averages two hours a day of online play, a habit he picked up in college.
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However, these titles are games specially created, or at least adapted, for online play - such as id Software's QuakeLive product.
Online play and account creation will not be available for the demo, but SolForge is expected to support cross platform accounts on release.
Unlike the PC version, Diablo III on the console will support both offline and online play, including shared screen for up to four players.
Fans of online play will be happy to learn that the friend codes for Nintendo 3DS are specific to each Nintendo 3DS system, not each game.
One feature that does sound interesting is the ability to combine split-screen play (with two players sharing a sofa, console and TV screen) with online play.
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It may also make the PS4 more competitive with the next Xbox in terms of online match-making and other areas of online play where Sony has fallen behind.
Forty nine percent of both females who play online games and females who do not play online games work out or play sports at least once per week or more.
In short: the Avenger Controller, a customization of the XBox and PS3 controllers designed for disabled gamers but with applications in competitive online play, encountered supply issues which delayed delivery over the Christmas period.
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You would think free online play would have spurred PS3 outsell the 360, but buyers could never get past the initial price being higher, and die-hard fans of exclusive Microsoft franchises like Halo would never jump ship.
Indeed it was, and now with the inclusion of the mode in the next God of War, it just might be the last bastion of single player games that has fallen to the lure of online play.
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It seems that the combination of digital payments, always-online play and the temptations to fraudulent practices created by the heavily-trailed (and much-delayed) Real Money Auction House, in which players can buy and sell items for cash with Blizzard taking a transaction fee, is causing trouble.
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Nintendo may have extended a lukewarm greeting toward online play with the Wii U, but it seems to have finally embraced other forms of entertainment with TVii, taking advantage of the GamePad's second screen to act as a remote control and interface to various entertainment services.
Fifty five percent of women who play online games indicated that they are happier in their life because they play online games and 50% feel that online games make them feel smarter.
More than 1.4 million people have gone online to play the title since its launch and more than four million online games of Halo 3 were logged in the last 24 hours.
Those bank accounts were used to issue checks that represented proceeds from online poker play at Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker, according to online poker players in the state of Washington who received them and spoke to government investigators, the court documents say.
According to a new survey conducted online in October 2011 by Harris Interactive on behalf of GameHouse among over 2, 000 U.S. adults, more than half (55%) of online gamers (people who play online games on their computer, social networking sites, or mobile devices) are women.
Improved social functionality should also make match-making and online competitive play more streamlined.
Sony's "SOCOM 4" is the latest in a third-person shooter series about Navy SEAL operatives, which heavily promotes its online-play component.
The device bypasses the traditional console business model by allowing consumers to purchase gaming apps online and play them on the device.
For instance, you can see the challenges you currently have, gifts you've received, and what zFriends you currently have online to play with.
State lawmakers in places like New Jersey have recently promoted regulated online poker play within their state borders, drooling over potentially rich tax revenues.
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But no law enforcement or legislative effort has put a dent in the demand for online poker play in the U.S. that involves financial bets.
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Pandora in some ways has followed in the footsteps of Netflix (NFLX), another online media play that has focused on spreading its reach into a wide variety of devices.
The other payment processor companies involved in the civil forfeiture actions were run by Brian Kenny and Javier Carillo, both of whom court documents say facilitated payments to Washington state residents derived from online poker play at UltimateBet.
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