With millions of players worldwide, digital games have grown in ubiquity, diversity, and accessibility over the last decade across the globe. They are now played in most of the world’s major languages. Once confined to the physical boundaries of an arcade, single PC, or television console, games have boomed with the expansion of broadband Internet, in the form of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) and, most recently, casual social networking games (SNGs). In combination with a growing variety of platforms and player configurations, new narrative forms and distinct game genres have emerged, merged, and re-emerged as new forms.
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