A terrorist from the online game Counter-Strike: Source.

Internet games refer to online video games that are played over the Internet. These include browser games, play-by-email games, MMORPGs, MUDs, and competitive multiplayer games such as Counter-Strike and Halo. Internet games usually allow people to play together, although in the case of some browser games this is sometimes limited to a shared high score list. Many Internet games have associated online communities, making Internet games a form of social activity beyond single player games. Image File history File linksMetadata Terrorist_standing. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Terrorist_standing. ... Terrorism is the unconventional use of violence for political gain. ... ... For the list, see list of computer and video games. ... Browser games are games that are played online via the Internet. ... Play by mail games are games, of any type, played through postal mail or e-mail. ... Players interacting in Ultima Online. ... In computer gaming, a MUD (multi-user dungeon, dimension, or sometimes domain) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games, and social instant messaging chat rooms. ... Counter-Strike (CS) is a popular team-based mod of Valves first-person shooter (FPS) Half-Life. ... Halos protagonist, the Master Chief. ... Browser games are games that are played online via the Internet. ... High score of the Commodore 64 game Great Giana Sisters. ... A virtual community is a group of people communicating or interacting with each other by means of information technologies, typically the Internet, rather than face to face. ...

Earlier in PC Gaming

Most online games in late 1980's were MUDs (Multi-User Dungeon/Dimension). These text based games served as entertainment to early users of the Internet who spent time in BBS forums. Scripted AI simulated the fantasy tabletop role-playing game rules and dice system from games like Dungeons & Dragons. (D) from MUD refers a tribute to this game. Players could connect to scripted fantasy worlds inspired by other fantasy settings, such as J.R.R. Tolkien's popular Lord of the Rings series. During that time mostly 4800b and 9600b modems were used to make proper connection to BBS in order to join MUDs. In computer gaming, a MUD (multi-user dungeon, dimension, or sometimes domain) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games, and social instant messaging chat rooms. ... A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer system running software that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line and, using a terminal program, perform functions such as downloading software and data, uploading data, playing games, reading news, and exchanging messages with other users. ... // Ai (as a word, proper name and acronym) can refer to many things. ... Tabletop role-playing games are a particular form of role-playing game. ... Players Handbook for D&D Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D, DnD, or AD&D for the advanced edition) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) published by Wizards of the Coast. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916. ... Dust jacket of the 1968 UK edition The Lord of the Rings is an epic fantasy story by J. R. R. Tolkien, a sequel to his earlier work, The Hobbit. ... A modem (a portmanteau word constructed from modulator and demodulator) is a device that modulates a carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. ...

Beginning of the Modern Online PC Gaming

Since late 90's online gamers are growing in positively due to access to broadband internet in countries. Especially in early developed countries like Sweden, Netherlands, Germany in Europe, US in America and as same fast growing Asia. First gaming communities established to play online with other real players all around the world.

Timeline

1995

• Many PC games published include the feature of playing the game in a local area network.

A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small local area, like a home, office, or small group of buildings such as a college. ...

1997

• Blizzard Entertainment launches an online gaming service Battle.net, at the time making it possible to play Diablo in the internet.
• Half-Life: Counter-Strike is published and becomes very popular.
• The first MMORPG, Ultima Online is published. The game's subscription based membership costs around 10 dollars per month at the time.

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1998

• StarCraft is published and becomes the most selling game. Online battles are officially started at Battle.net for Diablo and Starcraft. Profitable success of Blizzard encourages developers to develop online PC gaming further.

StarCraft (SC) is a real-time strategy computer game by Blizzard Entertainment. ...

1999

• StarCraft is incredibly popular in South Korea. StarCraft matches are broadcasted on Korean television.

2000

• May 20: Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix released for PC
• WCG Challenge tournament has held in Korea with the participation of 49 countries. Players from all around the world were met for the first time. Most of them knew each other from gaming networks such as Battle.net or Quake.net. IRC is the main communication tool for online gaming related discussions and online match schedulings. 64/128K ADSL, Cable modems are in favorite. Y2K Syndrome.

2001

• First inter-continentally successful video game console networking devices were brought to market by sixth generation era gaming consoles, as Sony released a network adaptor for PlayStation 2 in Japan (on 2002 in North America and on 2003 in Europe), Microsoft supplied their newly released Xbox with a built-in internet connector and Nintendo added the networking support for GameCube.

The XBox 360 is an example of a current generation video game console. ... The sixth-generation era (sometimes inaccurately referred to as the 128-bit era; see section below) refers to the computer and video games, video game consoles, and video game handhelds available at the turn of the 21st century. ... The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, the successor to the PlayStation and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEx: 4338) is the worlds largest software company, with 2005 global annual sales of 40 billion US dollars and nearly 60,000 employees in more than 90 countries and regions. ... The Microsoft Xbox is a sixth generation era video game console first released on November 15, 2001 in North America, then released on February 22, 2002 in Japan, and on March 14, 2002 in Europe. ... Nintendo (Japanese: 任天堂, ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 ) is a Japanese company originally founded on November 6, 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards, for use in a Japanese playing card game of the same name. ... The Nintendo GameCube (Japanese: ゲームキューブ; originally code-named Dolphin during development; abbreviated as GCN) is Nintendos fourth home video game console, belonging to the 128-bit era; the same generation as Segas Dreamcast, Sonys PlayStation 2, and Microsofts Xbox. ...

2002

• Aug 28: America's Army released for PC

Americas Army (also known as AA or Army Game Project) is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the U.S. government and released as a global public relations initiative to present an image of the current U.S. Army and help with U.S. Army recruitment. ...

2004

• Half-Life 2, along with it's official mod Counter-Strike:Source is released.

Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter computer game and the highly anticipated sequel to Half-Life, developed by Valve Corporation. ...

2005

• Apr 26: Guild Wars released for PC
• Jun 21: Battlefield 2 released for PC
• Oct 24: Call of Duty 2 released for PC
• Nov 17: Call of Duty 2 released for Xbox 360
• Nov 21: BF2's expansion pack, Battlefield 2: Special Forces released for PC
• Nov 22: Perfect Dark Zero released for Xbox 360