Play Free Games Online
Over the past few years online gaming has become one of people’s most favorite free-time activities.
While everything started with text-adventures and board games like chess, today only the sky is the limit: Whether you like word games, puzzle games, logic games or the popular trivia and guessing games, or even action-, adventure- or strategy games – you’ll find computer games of every possible margin on the internet. Online versions of famous games like Solitaire, Mahjong, Free Cell, Sudoku, Yatzy or Memory as well as Skat, Rummy, Canasta or Bingo have become essential for internet users.
Basically, there are two common categories of online games:
- Firstly, there are the browserbased games which use Plug-ins like Java or Flash or are purely HTML based. Most often you play those games directly from the hosting server and don’t need to download special client software.
- Secondly, there are the Multiplayer Online Games, which work peer-to-peer or in a client-server-cooperation. For those formats, you generally need to download software to play the games. One popular example are the ego shooter games.
Significant for both categories is the possibility to play with a large number of players at the same time. The number of players varies from several hundred to several hundredthousand. This phenomenon is called Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming.