The topics of the free online flash games are so diversified that you can find a game with anything that you might think of. There are games with sports, games with shooting and fighting, games with real characters (such as actors, singers or politicians), games with fictional characters, games with cooking, cleaning, dressing up, even games with sex, and the list can go on and on.

Some games are funny, others are serious or educational while others are scary. From the “scary games” category today we’ll discuss about some free online games with zombies. A zombie is a creature that is considered in books and popular culture to be a reanimated dead. But the zombies didn’t became so famous from books, but from movies. There are so many horror movies with zombies, and the first one who had a big success was the “Night of the Living Dead” made in 1968.



Besides movies there are also a lot of video games with zombies and today we’ll discuss about some of them found for free on the internet. A cool site with free online flash games is this, and we’ll choose some games from here. If you go at the search box and enter the word “zombie” you will find quite a lot of games with these kind of characters, so you have what to play. Let’s begin with one of the games, for example the “Zombie squirrel”. So not just humans can become zombies, and even animals can :). The game begins with a short movie showing the zombie squirrels getting out from their graves, and you will play with a normal squirrel and your goal will be to shoot and kill the zombies. You must use the mouse to aim, click and hold the left mouse button to shoot and also use the space bar to take cover, and the R key to reload when you don’t have anymore bullets. The zombie squirrels are not that easy to kill and they will require a few more bullets to die. So just shoot them as fast as possible and don’t allow them to reach close to you, because they will hit you and you lose health.

First you have only one gun, but once you kill the first round of zombies you will have 2 pistols. So now you can press the 1 key to use only one of them and the 2 to use them both. But even though now you have 2 guns, the zombies will be more powerful too. After completing the second round you will get an even better gun - a shotgun, and you must press the 3 key to use it. The shotgun will be powerful, and will make more damage to the zombies, but they will be good too. And there will be a new type of zombies, the ones that are flying quite fast towards you. After this round you will get an even better gun – a machine gun, and now all that you have to do is to kill the master zombie. But be careful of its psychics powers. His powers will make even more damage to you, and they can touch you even when you are hidden. But after all it is not quite so difficult to be killed, so after a few tries you can kill him and complete the game!



Let’s discuss about one more game, for example the “Zombie Pac”. We all know the famous Pacman game, in which you play with a little yellow smiley face and you have to eat small round dots. The “Zombie Pac” is actually the zombie version of the Pacman game, and you can tell this by the weird look of your smiley face. The objective of the game is the same: you must eat all the dots from the map (in this case they are green) and avoid the monsters. There are 3 types of enemies so you must be careful because some enemies can even shoot at you. But luckily there are also powerups that can help you in your way. The game has 35 levels and they will be more and more tricky as you advance. Also collect the little pac faces to gain extra lives. You can also plant mines in the way of the enemies to kill them and make the level easier for you. Use the mouse the control the pacman – wherever you move the mouse it will follow, and also click on the left mouse button to place the mines (once you have them of course). So good luck!

Here were just 2 fun games with zombies from the site funny-games.biz. But there are many more others for you to play, especially if you are a fan of the zombie movies and games. So have fun, and when you find a game that is really cool, tell us all about it!

Whenever you are bored and sitting at your computer without anything else to do, you can always choose to play a video game. It’s not necessary to be a child to play a video game, because there are games for any type of people, no matter the age. And we are not talking here about the complex video games for the PC that come on CD-s and DVD-s, but we are talking about the free online video games. These are small and simple games that are found on so many sites…for free. All you need to have to play them is a computer and a connection to the internet.

They are so much fun to play and some of them are really addictive. And besides this they have all sorts of topics and characters, so that anyone can be satisfied no matter what things he likes. You can find them on many sites and some examples are: funny-games.biz, miniclip.com or freeonlinegames.com. but of course there are many more others, so there are practically thousands of games and there are new ones added each day, so you will never get bored with them.

For today we’ll choose some random games and discuss more about them. Let’s begin with the one called “Demolition drifters”. This is a fun game that combines 2 types of racing games : the drifting ones and the crashing games. So not only that you have to race, make drifts and win the game  but you also have to crash into your opponents to make more points. With the points you make you will be able to unlock new cars, tracks and also upgrades for your vehicle. You can destroy the other cars part by part, depending on the power of the impact and the number of impacts. The more times you hit a car, the more you will destroy it. This game has 18 cars and 9 tracks so you won’t get bored that easily. And each car has its own characteristics (such as weight, speed, bumper strength and so on). You have to use just the arrow keys to control your car. You will see your car from above, and an interesting thing is that when you go slow you see your car from a closer perspective, but once you gain speed the camera  will go higher and you will see your car much better. The car can be quite difficult to control especially in corners, so this is not the best racing game ever, but it can be quite fun to play. Good luck!



Since we began talking about a racing game, let’s continue with one from the same category, for example the “High speed chase 2”. This is also a nice racing game that has a little more complex graphic. Your objective will be to take down the targets that are shown to you in the mission overview. In the mission overview you can also see your progress, total credits and awards that you have won for each mission. The cars shown with a red cross sign over them are the targets. Some cars will travel with protection so watch out! To unlock the next mission you will need to make at least a bronze medal. With the credits earned during missions you can buy power ups that will appear on the road. These are very important in completing the mission and unlocking medals, and they are: health, boost, glide and jump. Use the arrow keys to drive the car and the space bar to activate a power up. Good luck!



But enough with the racing games, now let’s choose a different one. Let’s choose a game that requires some intelligence and concentration and these are usually the puzzle games. and some of the most famous games from this category are the “point and click games “ in which all you have to do is click on the screen to find objects and trigger all sorts of actions. One of the games of this type is the “Horror plant”. Here your objective will be to guide a carnivore plant through the homes of dwarfs and kill all of them. So just use the mouse to click on the screen. Compared to other “point and click games” this one is quite simple because the cursor will change its shape when you are pointing on a place where you have to click. So it will be easier for you. In the first slide you will click on different places, and the wizard will make some kind of a potion. But from this one a carnivore plant will grow. Once it appears, just click on it and the plant will chop off the head of the wizard. In the next image, after making a few simple clicks and triggering some actions you will light a torch. And after that you will click on the branch where the dwarf is working, and he will fall and die. And now you can make one more click and go and eat him, beginning with the head.

Even though the actions you make seem really elaborated and complicated they are not so difficult to achieve because you can simply move the mouse around the screen and search for the places where the cursor changes. So you will know that in that places you have to click. After that it is just a matter of time to figure out which is the correct order to trigger the actions. In the next image, after making the correct actions you will eat a women dwarf, but you will eat just the body and share the head with a spider. The game is quite bloody and crude so it is not quite recommended for the kids. In the next sequence you will also eat a dwarf and leave a pond of blood behind. All the animals are on your side, and after you release some worms, a crow will help you by killing one of the dwarfs and sticking its beak into his eyes. It is quite a horror game because after that you will squeeze a dwarf and then drink its guts. In the next image, after putting some ingredients into the big pot, you will drink it and become really huge.

And then of course, you will kill that lady who is making the “soup”. But there is also another possible ending for this game, the one that is not happy for you (the plant). After making the “grow large” potion, if you press on the cup of wood from the right side of the screen the woman will go and take the cup to drink some potion…and then she will become really huge, and she will step on the plant and crush it. So after all this is quite a fun and challenging game and we home you enjoyed it.

And if you know some other cool free online video games, just tell us all about them. Have a nice day!

There are so many fun activities that you can do on the internet, and here are just some examples: you can browse all kinds of sites in search of all sorts of information, or you can download music, pictures, movies, or you can chat with friends or meet new people from all over the world and you can also have a lot of fun by playing some free online flash games. These are usually simple games, with quite a simple graphic and an easy to understand gameplay.

They are found on the internet for free, and there are so many of them on hundreds of sites. They are also really diversified, with all kinds of topics and characters. Some of them are quite funny and silly, while others are more serious and require a little bit of intelligence and concentration. The most famous games from this last category are the puzzle games. Even though they have a very simple gameplay (all you have to do is use the mouse and click on different places), they are quite difficult especially as you advance more in the game.



As we said there are many sites offering flash games and today we’ll discuss about a site that has just puzzle games. And this one is freepuzzlegames.biz. There are a lot of fun games to play here, and they are sorted on categories. These are: Puzzle games, Jigsaw Games, Sudoku Games, and Popular Games. Now let’s play and discuss more about some of them, and we’ll choose them in a random order. We’ll begin with the game called “Click Maze 2”. The objective of this game is to guide the red pill through the maze while avoiding the black walls and other obstacles. And finally you will have to reach the larger red pill with as few clicks as possible. First click on the “start” button to begin the level. The use the mouse to click on the screen and guide the pill. You will get to the next level when you reach the big red pill. The small circle with a white contour is your mouse icon, the little red pill is the one you have to guide, and the big red pill is the end  of the level. You will get three kinds of scores, and they will be totaled at the end of each level. The level completion score will give you 100 points for each level that you complete. The level par bonus score will give you points according to the number of clicks you have made. For example if the level par is 8 and you completed the level in exactly 8 clicks you get 100 points. If you completed the level under par (in less moves than 8) you will get 10 extra points for each move.

But if you complete the level over par (in more moves than the par), then you will lose 10 points for each extra move. And finally the level lives remaining score will multiply the other scores depending on how many lives you still have left. Once you begin to play remember that you can you’re your small red pill only in a straight line. Otherwise it will bump into walls or obstacles. The pill will travel really fast, and when you hit an obstacle you won’t see this, but you will see a message telling you this. The game is quite fun, and the levels will get more and more complicated. So enjoy the game, and try to complete all 10 levels in as few moves as possible. And of course if you made a big score you can submit it to the score board.



So here was just one fun game from this site, but of course there are hundreds of others that are just waiting for you to try them. So have fun, and when you find some other games that are cool to play, tell us all about them!

Parker Brothers is a toy and a game producer that tackles in this industry since the early ages of 1883. Ever since it is known as having created the widely known and used games such as Monopoly, Cluedo, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Aggavation and as well Probe. At the moment, the Parker Brothers Company is a subsidiary of the Hasbro. Ever since it appeared on the market it has let out more than 1800 games.

Taking for example one of the parker Brother computer games that is played all over the world, one will discover that it’s name derives from the economic concept of monopoly, that actually signifies the domination of a market by a single entity. It was released in 1935 and since then it is said that over 500 million people have played it. The game mascot is represented by a muscle man that wears a monocle and a morning dress.

There are different versions of this game, there is the UK version, the US versions and the worldwide versions. The video game and the computergame versions for the Monopoly has options where there can be applied a lot of other rules than on the board game. So one can randomly introduce more money into the game, and the game could increase its time for the player’s bankruptcy and of lengthening the game in a consistent manner. They will as well change the value of different properties. Whatever one may say, the person that will win the game in the end will be the luckiest of them all. This is due to the fact that rolling the dice is what actually forms your game play, not your knowledge.

The computer game formats of Monopoly are known under the name of Monopoly Tycoon, Monopoly Casino, Monopoly Pinball, Monopoly Here and Now: the World Edition, Monopoly Junior, Monopoly express, Monopoly City and many others.



To tackle through one of these parker brothers computer games that are a part of the Monopoly view, we will take the Monopoly Tycoon computer Game. it is a PC game that was published in the early ages of 2001. Anyhow, the players will not have to use dices but these will be replaced by the innovativeness and the speed of the gamers.

There is as well a multiplayer version that will make the players go against any other online players. Teher is a total number of sixteen levels in this game. they are the Starting Out level, in which one must make some stores and to sell around 100 pieces; it has a city dull of people and no time limit to pass through; the next level, the homely city is the same level but with no people in the city; the third level is named compete for sales, one must fight against an opponent and reach the target of 200 sales.

The next in line is $3,000 Daily Profit, it is a level that requires one to make this amount of sales. It shows you different blocks and known buildings. First to be worth $20,000 is the next level that enables one to make this target. Greatest Empire Value by 1945 asks one to get the highest empire value by the selected targeted date at midnight time. There are then levels as First to be Mayor; Sell, sell, sell; last man standing; the Race for Mayor; My Mega Metropolis; You Got it All; Land of Riches; Block Release; the Campaign Trail; Reign of the Outsider; Profitable Proposition; Survival of the Fittest and then there are those that are a continuous of others.

The time of the game is different than the actual time in real life. It starts at 9 AM in the year 1930 and the year goes up every day at night time. It goes up to five years per day. As for the multiplayer possibilities, the game includes support to be played over a LAN or an internet coonncetiona nd as well it allows one to search for support in finding online opponents.

A personal computer game is a game played on a computer rather than on a certain device. Computer games have come a long way, evolving from the simple graphics games, like Spacewars, to more evolved ones, such as those that exists nowadays. Computer games date from the 1960s and they have been offered to the general public ever since.

They have evolved so much, as they are separated, in computer games that are specially designed for adults, children, men, women, adventure, educational, puzzle, arcade, cartoons, sports, interactive computer games, multiplayer, single player and there are more to count.

While some of us may believe that spending your time in front of the computer and playing games, will prove to be a waste of time, most of us, think that it is a mean of spending quality time with yourself and of having some relaxation moments. However, both beliefs are good, as one should not exaggerate with computer gaming and see the world just by this view, and as well, one can develop the concentrating facility and have better view of the problems.

As for the cricket computer games concerns, they can as well be of a lot of types, there are International cricket, test skills cricket, Brian Lara cricket, Graham Gooch cricket, Ashes cricket, Cricket, Super international cricket, and each of those mentioned  above has various sides. There are some special websites that are specialized in this kind of game, such as this one. Cricket is a game that is rather hard if you do not specialize in it.



Taken the Brian Lara cricket computer games will offer you a chance of getting to know the Brian Lara series. This series has started in the year 1996 and it continued appearing on the market ever since, until in 2007, when it reached the final series activity - Brian Lara International Cricket 2007. The game has three difficulties modes and it uses real name players such as – Dion Nash, Michael Slater and Brain Lara. The player is capable of choosing what nation to play against and for. The game is enabled with pseudo 3D graphics and the sound effects are digitized.



The international Cricket Captain 2010 is part of the International Cricket Captain Series and it maintains all through the games series the same player. The game features all teams and competitions from the English Domestic Season, the International teams and competitions and as well, the teams and competitions from the Australian Domestic Season, that was not included in this series so far. One will be able to choose between the wide range of teams the game provides one with and as well play against whichever team one wants. In this game, one is provided with the possibility of playing the English cricket competition that is played on-line with your English or Australian domestic team, a complete database of the first class, comprehensive domestic and international lists, accurate batsmen aggression ratings, the ability to declare during intervals and as well the an improved aggression, to reflect real match. If you enjoy cricket you will most certainly enjoy this game very much.
Apart from the two gaming possibilities presented above, there are much more to choose from. Anyhow, one must be a keen player, in order to get a hold and to understand the actual game. There is no use in playing something one does not like. If one feels like it does not worth it paying for a cricket computer games, one can easily register one of the specialized websites, and play this game, online.

Nevada…Nevada is a place where gamings are at their home. There is no other place where one will find so many such big multinational companies and businesses in the gaming industry like Nevada. That is an addition to the fact that the Golden Gaming as well is from Nevada. Therefore, the international gaming technology will offer you once again the chance to visit the country, but not go to the Golden Gaming Company but to the IGT one.

The International Gaming Technology is a producer of slot machines and other gaming products that has its facility offices in Nevada, and the other branch offices all over the United States, and not only. Founded in 1951, under the name of A-1 Supply, by 1981 it already had changed two names and finally remained with the actual one – International Gaming Technology.



This company has two divisions, the gaming one and the international one. In the gaming industry this deals with gaming products, casinos and sales. The international division is in charge of all the other parts of the world that need sales and services. they deal with both games as with mobile and computer games.

Some examples of the games that this international company offers are PAR Sheets, PSRs, Toppers, Secure Progressive Controller, Game Page Overview, 3-D games, AVP, Barcrest USA, Class II, Game King – various sides of it, IGT Dynamix, Indiana Jones, MegaJackpots, S AVP, Video Pocker, Tournament, Illinois Video Gaming and many such games.

Apart from these kind of games, the online and mobile gaming possibility that it come top offer, exists since the ages of 2005, when the WagerWorks was acquired y the IGT company. Since then the IGT has extended possibilities, as the WagerWorks is one of the biggest provider of game content for online, mobile and digital television.  They offer a truly quality online gaming. They have multi line and multi coin slots, traditional table games, and odd games. They are the only ones responsible for the jackpot payment. Some of the online games that they are a part of include, Cleopatra, Dungeon and Dragons, Cluedo, Monopoly, Elvis, Wheel of Fortune etc. they do not allow players to play on real money on their software.



The Mobile gaming is another subsidiary of the International Gaming Technology, that deals with having various services such as prize competitions, voting facilities, lotteries, call radio, call TV, interactive issues etc. this actual subsidiary is known under the name of Million 2-1. It was highly connected before it was acquired in 2008 by the IGT. It operates internationally in territories such as UK, Ireland, USA, Australia, China, South Africa. It is made in such a way as to offer a game portal that will provide its loyal clients with online casino, poker, bingo, cell phone games.

Even though IGT is a wide international supporter of gaming and everything it includes, one is well aware of the fact that gaming should as well be treated with responsibility. Therefore, it promotes responsible gaming to all the employees, to the customers, to the public and as well tries to raise a question sign to al the gaming industry businesses.

In any of the fields it may be working in, by entering the official website of the Inyternational Gaming Technology, you will be offered with full support. Even though there may be some areas that are tabu to any person, by entering a membership, one will be able to get access to that information. One will be provided with the necessary support documentation, glossary terms, the procedure on how to tackle through that particular product, game etc, and as well the ClipIt videos.

Though quite a young company on the market, this has captured the attention of all the biggest players and companies dealing with slot games etc in the world.

At the beginning of this field, when the first computer games appeared, people had to save the game on their computer and then play it. Nowadays it’s a different situation, because you can play computer games online and what’s even better, is that these online computer games are free. Online computer games have the advantage that you don't need to install them and that they do not occupy space on your personal computer. Like every computer games, playing online computer games has it's advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages could be that you don't waste time installing them and that they do not occupy space on your hard disk, but a big disadvantage is that you can always take viruses.

I suppose that everybody has tried at least once in his life to play an online computer game. There are different types of online computer games and for all people, of all ages, nationalities, religion etc.

So there are online computer games for toddlers, for children between 10-14, for teenagers, boys, girls, adults, old people, computer games about war, about fairies, about animals, plants and so on. It’s very easy nowadays to play a computer game online because most of them do not require an account and you can just play it like that, without having to pay for it. Of course, there are some online computer games that require an account but those are more complex games and following the steps in order the register the site is not difficult alt all.

One of the most common online computer game is “tetris”. This is a dynamic puzzle game invented by Alexey Pazhitnov in the year 1985.It’s really easy to play. The square pieces must be rotated and shifted as they fall and fill in the blank spaces. The game ends when the bricks don’t have any space left where to fall.

Another online computer game that is very famous is the arcade game “Pac-Man”. What is the most important fact about this game is that is non-violent, reason why it actually became very popular during the 80’s. It’s simple to play, all you need to do is eat dots and other prizes and try not to meet the four ghosts that are trying to catch Pac-Man.

Card games such as “freecell”, “Yukon”, “pyramid”, “shamrocks castle”, “blackjack” “solitaire” are also a category of very popular online computer games. The most played in my opinion is solitaire and especially FreeCell solitaire where the player must place all the cards in each suit in ascending order. The victory in this game depends more on strategy than on luck.

Online computer games, simple complex or strategic they can also be a meaning of entertainment and they can all help us relax. Online computer games have become quite a business nowadays, a real life area that people use every day for fun, field that they can even use to make money, by inventing, using and selling computer games.

Mobile games are great inventions! When they can be free downloaded, the joy is bigger!

I am a big fan of cell phone games. It’s a great and funny way of spending time. I like this occupation especially when I travel, because I get bored of listening to music all the time. I like playing all kind of games. Mobile games are easy to understand and to play. I like to play even during classes, because nobody notices J Even on my way to school, I like to avoid the looks from the people from the bus, and listening to music would distract me too much.

Downloading free mobile games is great, because if you get bored of one game, you can just change it with another one and prepare for another day. There are still some traps that we should be careful at. Some sites may lie. You might search for free mobile games and you might find free games, but most of them ask you to create an account. This is not much of a problem, because you may use the account to download more games in the future. But some sites say they offer free games, and in the end they ask for money.

You should be careful when you download something, because that could be a virus pack and this would not be good for your cell phones. Most of the sites ask for your email to send you notifications when a new game appears or any other news.

Most games and applications available are for Iphones, and with a phone like that you can not complain you are bored. From strategy games to card games, this phone ca support anything and ca be a great source of fun.

Not all phones support games, that’s why a new version of cell phone is better for you, so you can have the game you want. There are categories, there are games for children, girls, boys, cars games or anything your heart desires.

They help you loose time in case you have too much, just like computer games. The difference is that cell phones are available everywhere and anytime and are easy to carry around.

It’s funny how we get excited when we win a game, even if no one knows why we are smiling about. I use to play cell phone games before I go to sleep, but I use to play the most boring one, so I get quickly bored and want to sleep.

It’s great what we can do with cell phones and computers…I agree that cell phones offer us large possibilities, from listening to music, radio, calling whoever we want and playing our favourite games.



Games: The Netherlands does not know which way to turn
The Netherlands has entered the list of countries that do not know precisely determine their policy on online gaming. Gambling on the net still remains a social taboo.

The Netherlands has entered the list of countries that do not know precisely determine their policy on online gaming. France has often been mentioned as it has repeatedly stressed the guide for online casinos: www.casinoweb.org. This directory has often wrote papers explaining the many twists to explain his state monopoly and to announce the opening of sites online casinos and online poker players.

The Netherlands was in 2006, through the lower house passed a bill to allow online gaming. But this law had not only the Holland Casino is the French equivalent of the games in the Netherlands. Only the site was legal and all other casino sites that abound on the web were considered outlaws.

The upper chamber of the Netherlands has recently voted against the proposal to legalize online gambling in the Holland Casino. The Netherlands had taken a step forward and two are back by voting against this law. The vote was played on the wire because 37 votes were in disfavor the online gaming cons 35. The Netherlands then return back and all forms of online gambling is now illegal in the country of Gouda. Every Dutchman who played on a casino site online or bluffing a virtual poker room is considered illegal.

Europe is trying to speak as one voice will have trouble being heard because everyone is his own decision without consulting other countries. Brussels is clear in its policy on online games and expects every country to open its market. However, as can be seen with the Netherlands, countries make the decisions they want even taking the risk to alienate the European Commission. The United Kingdom and Malta have clear policies on online games and "whitelist" English gives carte blanche to casino sites, poker or sports on the web on this list. Of course, to be on this list, specific criteria and stringent checks are held for the online player can play without worrying about the reliability of the company behind a banner sports or casino.

It is likely that Amsterdam is called to order by Brussels. Moreover, it is one that fills the Netherlands rejected the games online. ACC 2008 (Casino Affiliate Convention combining the global online games editor's note), held, like every year, in Amsterdam last weekend. All the major casino groups as Euro Partners Cpays, 888, Vendome, etc. are given appointments to meet with the ACC directory of casinos and discuss the evolution of online gaming in the world.

The time that European countries are in tune on free online games, players continue to play on game sites online. Internet is a world without borders and free movement of people, goods and services and the basic foundation of the European Constitution.

Game video online at the foot of the Christmas tree, then it is the rapid drift in the virtual teenager blossomed. Faced with this nightmare scenario, European companies are alarmed a new "disease" for which the therapeutic means are lacking.



More Online Games - According to a recent study published in Germany and Britain in 2007, more than a regular player in ten shows signs of addiction. Even if these practices more excessive concern Asia, where the culture of online gaming is widespread, experts believe in France as in Germany than 1% to 2% of players' games massively multiplayer online (MMO) simulation games endlessly, have a practice of pathological nature, with a negative impact on their social life.

On average, gamers engage 35 to 40 hours per week online games, according to estimates. In France, nearly 60% of players recognize, however, have already played once at least ten hours and 5% reported spending more than 30 hours per week in the virtual world, according to a recent study by the "Rights Forum l 'internet' French agency for regulating the Internet.

It is usually far, however, 50 hours in a row having claimed the life of a compulsive gambler South Korea 28 years in a cybercafe in 2005. According to many experts, the criterion for assessing a pathological practice of online games is not so much the number of hours but the social disruption in reality.

"Unlike the forms of dependency-related substances, addiction to online games is recognized in society as a moral weakness but not as a disease," says Jakob Hein, head of the addiction to the Charity Hospital Berlin.

Yet this addiction "leads to similar problems in families and in the economy" and deserves the authorities treat "on the same level than the others in terms of prevention and intervention, he said. In Germany, the diagnosis of addiction to games is not recognized by health insurance funds, and specialized treatment centers can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

In his study, the German psychiatrist heard parents say they "prefer to see their children play on the internet rather than smoking cannabis. "Most experts agree that it is time to take seriously the issues of Internet addiction," says Professor Jean-Luc Venisse, chief of addiction to the hospital of Nantes.

And "they agree that they are not action games or puzzle games but simulation games, especially multiplayer role-playing (...) MMORPGs that have the highest risk of drift addictive in subjects fragile. These games continue to evolve in the absence of the player who then feel lacking when no longer connected or excluded by the rest of the gaming community.

"World of Warcraft," one of the games most likely to create dependency, more than 9.3 million subscribers worldwide.  This behavioral dependence, which moves slowly, is indicative of some discomfort (academic failure, lack of self recovery, etc. ...). In a parallel universe, players will find a virtual social environment, clear rules and a system of rewards and sanctions that they lack daily.

The phenomenon does not exist only at teens but also at fathers and mothers and the elderly, according to Laurent Baup, Legal Rights Forum on the internet.  When to sound the alarm? "From the moment you begin to wonder, is that we should have reacted long time," said the psychiatrist Jakob Hein. Ironically, it is often on the Internet platforms that parents of problem gamblers seek advice and support.