Infographic Explores The Social Evolution Of Gaming

A decade ago there was somewhere between 150 to 250 million gamers. Today that number has jumped to between 1 to 1.2 billion gamers, thanks in part to the rise social gaming. A new infographic from Facebook video chat app Rounds and Column Five Media explores this phenomenon—the evolution of social gaming.

A decade ago there was somewhere between 150 to 250 million gamers.  Today that number has jumped to between 1 to 1.2 billion gamers.  A lot of this growth has to do with the growth of gaming on mobile devices and in social networks.  A new infographic from Facebook video chat app Rounds and Column Five Media explores this phenomenon—the evolution of social gaming.

The infographic points out the fact that gaming has seen huge growth as we have evolved from the anti-social, single-player home game consoles to multi-player home games to social multi-player online games like DOOM and (much later) WoW. 

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