[SnowTroll]

There's not much in the article to disagree with. Browser-based games are definitely where it's at, and where it's going to be for a long while. Right now, there's a little bit of a schism/differentiation between traditional "hardcore" gamers who play their console games or more typical old-school type PC games, people who play MMOs (and those of us who still play their MUD predecessors), and casual gamers who will sit and play Bejewelled for 15 straight hours but call the rest of us gamer nerds.

Technology's come a long, long, long way, and today, you can easily play the equivalent of a fairly complex, hardcore, old-school type game using your browser, on a tablet. That means that the types of games us hardcore gamers played back in the day now qualify as casual games your wife's sewing circle might play through Facebook. I'm not quite sold on the idea that if my wife found Threshold or a similar, fairly robust, roleplay-required mud on Facebook, she'd get into it and learn all of the ins and outs, just because it's platform-independent, but a simple game or series of mini-games, like Coin n Carry? You bet.