Julio's First Blog Post.

Julio Liu History of Games Blog Post 1 Source: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/12/21/why-pc-gaming-ruled-in-2012

PC Gaming in the past few years haven't been growing. Back out two years ago, I remember PC games were slaughtered by bad service systems such as Games for Windows Live and UPlay by Ubisoft and lackluster console ports like the recent Battlefield game series. 2013 bought a lot of fresh new games that were released on the PC and it simply exploded in many fields on the PC such as the professional gaming scene and indie games.

2013 had a massive library of great games on the PC. Great games that were critically acclaimed on release such as Guild Wars 2 with their tackle to player grinding and bring a fresh new ideas to the name of "Massive Multiplayer Online and Black Mesa: Source, an incredible modification of the original game Valve's "Half Life". Console games that were ported to the PC were a big hit as well. Competitive gaming on the PC exploded in giant numbers this year.

League of Legends a free MMO battle arena game erupted in the competitive game scene. The game made a huge breakout to the North American esports scene with breaking numbers of viewers of eight million viewers in their championship series. In Korea, a country where esports is a very big deal, hit a decline of professional players because they are switching to League of Legends. Riot Games, the company that developed League of Legends didn't create a free game that was fun, addictive and easy to catch for casual players on as well; but created a game that competitive heavy for expert and professional players that are familiar with the genre as well.

The indie game scene grew greatly this year. Last quarter at AI, students had a small chat with two developers from Gaslamp Games, creator of the indie game "Dungeon of Dredemor." The two developers discussed how indie games released this year were innovative but gave many game designers new ideas what could they put into their games. The indie scene is going great and I'm looking forward of how many games will be great on my favourite superior system, the PC.

Hello this is a repost to the other post because I accidentally submitted the assignment on Microsoft Word.