DISQUS

Social Times: Gaming Is Social and Isn’t Turning Back

  • Sebastien Provencher · 1 year ago
    Interesting! I just blogged about the fact that
    "Facebook Is Just A Game". I think we'll see more and more convergence between social and gaming (and vice-versa).
  • Nabeel Hyatt · 1 year ago
    Gaming certainly isn't turning back from being social, but let's not forget that gaming NOT being social is a fairly recent thing.

    The history of gaming has been social, if you think of games like Backgammon (at least 3000 years old) and Poker (~200 yrs old) they are profoundly social. Even early video games adhered to this (Pong anyone?).

    We've had a couple decades of both social games and profoundly isolating, single-player adventures. But we are social animals and it is pretty sure what wins out in the end.