Reality is Broken

Reality is Broken - Jane McGonigal

• The planet is spending more than 3 billion hours a week gaming. 
• Collectively, there are 4 million gamers in the Middle East, 105 million in India, 100 million in Europe and 200 million in China. 
• More than 10 million "Hard Core" gamers in the UK, France and Germany spend at least 20 hours a week playing.
• Looking at statistics, every average American person who reaches the age of 21 will have spent 10,000 hours gaming. 
• The planet is spending more than 3 billion hours a week gaming. 
• 5 million 'extreme gamers' in the US play games on an average of 45 hours a week.
• Digital games, across most media platforms, is expected to be a $68 billion industry by the end of the year.
• 97% of young people play video games.
• 40% of gamers are women.
• 69% of heads of households play video games.
• 5.93 million years have been spent playing World of Warcraft. 5.93 million years ago, our first ancestors stood up, this shows how much time is spent playing video games.

Zynga!

Zynga is a company that develops games that work both stand-alone on mobile phone platforms such as Apple iOS and Android and as application widgets on its website and social networking websites such as Facebook and Google+. Zynga's mission is 'Connecting the world through games.'
Zynga is mostly known for the creation of games such as FarmVille, CityVille, CastleVille, ChefVille, Mafia Wars and Words With Friends.
A lot of people wonder how Zynga makes its money, especially seeing as the games that they create, their business model is free-to-play. Zynga is supported in two ways, via credit card payments and partner businesses.
Farmville 2 is a sequel to Farmville and was released in September of 2012. It's available as an adbone flash application via the social networking website Facebook and Microsoft's MSN games. The game is a freemium game which means there's no cost to play however players have the option to purchase premium content.

Skylanders

Skylanders Giants is a 2012 video game in the skylanders series, it's a direct sequel to the 2011 game skylanders, Spyro's adventure. As the title suggests, it features larger skylanders known as giants along with other gameplay mechanics.
The game was released in October 2012 globally and was released on the following platforms, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox 360.
The game was published by Activision, Neoplay, Square - Enix and was developed by Toys for Bob, n - space.

Vivendi

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - "Hot Coffee" Mod.

Hot Coffee is a normally inaccessible minigame in the 2004 video game GTA: San Andreas. Although the 'Hot Coffee' minigame was completely disabled and its existence was only highlighted after the mod's release for the PC version in 2005, people had found ways to enable the minigame via console video game hacking tools. The Hot Coffee minigame allows the player to engage in sexual intercourse with any of his six girlfriends.
By July 2005, the mod had attracted a lot of publicity from the likes of politicians and lawmakers, this then led the selling of the game to be stopped and for the game to be re-rated as an adult game.
Rockstar has now vowed that legal action would take place against sources that reveal how to access the minigame.