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Browser Games: The New Frontier of Social Gaming

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Browser games are nowadays a very popular type of computer games. Those games are played directly in web browser and do not need software installations; therefore those are available for more players. Even those have existed rather long time, there were no comprehensive study about browser games. This paper targets at analyzing browser games and categorizing of those. We also discuss financial opportunities involved in browser game genre.

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  1. Department of Software Systems, Tampere University of Technoloy, P.O. BOX 553, FI-33101, Tampere, Finland

    Juha-Matti Vanhatupa

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  1. Girne American University, Girne, TRNC,  

    Abdulkadir Özcan

  2. University of Calcutta, India

    Nabendu Chaki

  3. Wireilla Net Solutions PTY Ltd, Australia

    Dhinaharan Nagamalai

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Vanhatupa, JM. (2010). Browser Games: The New Frontier of Social Gaming. In: Özcan, A., Chaki, N., Nagamalai, D. (eds) Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks. WiMo 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14171-3_30

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