Social Network Gaming Trends

Identifying Influential Friends in Social Network Gaming

Playing your network: gaming in social network sites

Recently the use of social network sites have emerged as one of the most important and time-consuming online activities. In the large and diversified social network scenario Facebook emerged as one of the most important sites at least in the United States and in Europe. In the Facebook-based gaming scene Playfish, a UK based company, has recently gained a leading position with more than 50 mill...

Interaction to Facilitate Learning in Social Network Gaming

Today’s learners have sophisticated technological skills, and since technology offers learners a myriad of new and highly effective tools which they can use to learn autonomously, digital games could be a case for such an educational use (Oblinger & Oblinger, 2005; Reeves, 2008). According to PEW Reports (2008), computing Hyungsung Park Kyonggi University, South Korea Interaction to Facilitate ...

Cheaters in the Steam Community Gaming Social Network

Online gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry that entertains a large, global population. One unfortunate phenomenon, however, poisons the competition and the fun: cheating. The costs of cheating span from industry-supported expenditures to detect and limit cheating, to victims’ monetary losses due to cyber crime. This paper studies cheaters in the Steam Community, an online social network b...

Mobile Social Gaming

After ten years of game design practices routed within traditional PC and console development aimed at hardcore gamers, the mobile games industry has embraced the realization that these have limited value for mobile, and new approaches need to be considered. In particular the greater utilization of social factors within games would embrace the social practices in which mobile phones often engag...