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  2. Video game culture - Wikipedia

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    Video games are played in a variety of social ways, which often involve domestic gatherings or even in public places. A popular method of accomplishing this is a LAN (Local Area Network) party, which is hosted at a home and involves family and friends, [6] creating a social event for people-friendly with each other. LAN parties are often held ...

  3. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve Corporation.It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005.

  4. List of social gaming networks - Wikipedia

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    Recent changes; Upload file; Search. ... This is a list of major social gaming networks. The list is not exhaustive and is limited to notable, well-known services ...

  5. Here’s How Steam’s New Family Sharing Works - AOL

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  6. History of video games - Wikipedia

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    From mobile and free-to-play games, gacha games had grown popular in Japan by the early 2010s, based on the capsule toy vending machine concept, with the earliest known system being in MapleStory. In-game, players would earn currency that they could use to earn a random draw from a set of items based on a preset rarities, often with the goal to ...

  7. Digital distribution of video games - Wikipedia

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    In September 2003 Valve released the Steam platform for Windows computers (later expanded to Mac OS and Linux) as a means to distribute Valve-developed video games. Steam has the speciality that customers don't buy games but instead get the right to use games, which might be revoked when a violation of the End-user license agreement is seen by ...

  8. Social network game - Wikipedia

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    Since social network games are often less challenging than console games and they have relatively shorter game play, they use different techniques to stretch game play and tools to retain users. [citation needed] Continuous goals: The games assign specific goals for users to achieve. As they advance in the game, the goals become more ...

  9. Multiplayer video game - Wikipedia

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    A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, [1] either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, DayZ).