League of Legends(LoL) is multiplayer online battle arena, or a MOBA. There are many games like it, but LoL is the most successful at this moment. LoL gets it’s inspiration from a game called Dota, created in 2003 as a custom map creation for the game Warcraft III. Dota 2 had the highest prize pool of $5 million for the winning 5-man team “Newbee” in 2014. Aside from MOBAs, there is First Person Shooters(fps) with serious franchise giants such as Call of Duty, Battlefield and Fallout. Third person shooters, including the Grand Theft Auto series and DayZ usually have an open-world aspect, meaning you can do pretty much whatever you want within the game’s bounderies instead of playing a strict story mode. Real time strategy games(RTS), including Starcraft and the original Warcraft usually offer a slower paced, settlement building style of gameplay. Even games such as a Big Truck simulator allows you to pretend you’re the driver of an 18-wheeler driving cross-country. There is even a game called I Am Bread, where you are a piece of bread and your objective is to flip yourself up surfaces and across counters, into the toasted to become toast. The types of games and games within these categories is quickly becoming endless. Even on Facebook, unlikely gamers have been born in this past decade, from grandmothers to babies. With the large variety of games and genres, it is possible that anyone can find the game that is right for
League of Legends(LoL) is multiplayer online battle arena, or a MOBA. There are many games like it, but LoL is the most successful at this moment. LoL gets it’s inspiration from a game called Dota, created in 2003 as a custom map creation for the game Warcraft III. Dota 2 had the highest prize pool of $5 million for the winning 5-man team “Newbee” in 2014. Aside from MOBAs, there is First Person Shooters(fps) with serious franchise giants such as Call of Duty, Battlefield and Fallout. Third person shooters, including the Grand Theft Auto series and DayZ usually have an open-world aspect, meaning you can do pretty much whatever you want within the game’s bounderies instead of playing a strict story mode. Real time strategy games(RTS), including Starcraft and the original Warcraft usually offer a slower paced, settlement building style of gameplay. Even games such as a Big Truck simulator allows you to pretend you’re the driver of an 18-wheeler driving cross-country. There is even a game called I Am Bread, where you are a piece of bread and your objective is to flip yourself up surfaces and across counters, into the toasted to become toast. The types of games and games within these categories is quickly becoming endless. Even on Facebook, unlikely gamers have been born in this past decade, from grandmothers to babies. With the large variety of games and genres, it is possible that anyone can find the game that is right for