Playing computer games used to be quite a minority pursuit. It wasn\’t that they weren\’t any good, but the image of gamers being geeks was one which held pretty firm for quite a long time. As time has gone on, with bigger advertising budgets, stronger games and a blurring of the boundaries between geek and chic, video games are now an industry that pushes movies and music in terms of public interest if not media respect. However, there is no doubt that there are limitations on how popular computer games can be.

After all, if you want to play a console game you need to have a console – and while you can buy a budget DVD player or an MP3 player for ludicrously small amounts these days, even a second hand console will more often than not set you back three figures. So if you want to play a video game, you have to really want to play it – you can\’t just pick up a console game and buy a generic console on which to play it for little more than the game itself cost. Hence the burgeoning popularity of online browser games.

Browser games are as popular as they are because they are games you can just pick up and play whenever you fancy a spot of gaming. If you have a PC – and most people already do for work, or for the internet – then you have what you need in order to play browser games. Your next step is to pick your game and get used to how it is played. This is not usually all that difficult. Playing a browser game will usually involve using a few keys or the mouse on your computer – unlike a console game which can realistically make use of ten or more buttons on a controller.

The question then is where you find browser games and it should not come as much of a surprise to know that the search engines are a fairly rich seam of information for that. There are increasing numbers of browser gaming sites available, some of which have a wide range of games of different genres, and in some case they will even have exclusive rights to host a particular game. The best sites offer a mix of games themselves as well as news and information and a detailed range of guides as to whether a game will suit you and how easy it is to play.

It is probably a good idea to have only one or two browser games on the go at any given time. They can be extremely intricate (as the internet holds all the information necessary to power a quite complicated game much better than a console can) and so you need to commit to playing them if you are going to get anywhere. There is also a social networking aspect to the games which can be as entertaining as the games themselves if you play against or with the right people.

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