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Our group topic - Game

Our group’s topic of blog and video is try to about GAME！！ Especiallycomputer games and video games. Also known as computer games are video games played on a general purpose personal computer rather than a dedicated video game console or arcade machine. Their defining characteristics include a lack of any centralised controlling authority and greater capacity in input, processing, and output.

PC games reached widespread popularity following the video game crash of 1983, particularly in Europe, leading to the era of the "bedroom coder". From the mid-90s onward they lost mass-market traction to console games before enjoying resurgence in the mid-2000s through digital distribution.

The openness of the PC platform allows players to edit their games and distribute the results over the internet as "mods". A healthy mod community greatly increases a game's longevity and the most popular mods have driven purchases of their parent game to record heights. It is common for professional developers to release the tools they use to create their games in order to encourage modding, but if a game is popular enough mods generally arise even without official support.

Mods can compete with official downloadable content however, or even outright redistribute it, and their ability to extend the lifespan of a game can work against its developers' plans for regular sequels. As game technology has become more complex, it has also become harder to distribute development tools to the public. 

Nowdays, computer games is not only one person player, also,  they are developing as it can be play with mates or share ideas with friends. In the second point,  computer games are creative, people need to use knowledges and create or design maps or weapons to let player to use.

In the future, our group will post different types of PC games and share the interests with you!!