Conducted by Mediametrythe last annual study of the TO SELL (Leisure Software Publishers Union) on “the French and video games” rate a 37.4 million the number of players in France in the elderly population 10 years and beyond.
While 95% of 10-17 year olds play video games, the figure is 68% among adults. Overall, in the two age groups, it appears that 53% of French people regularly play video games. With an average age of 39, these are 70% of the French who gamble at least occasionally.
A phenomenon of magnitude where the casual game intended for a wide audience is The most popular, with especially a mobile appetite. The game random it often takes the form of board games, puzzles, and cards. And the offer is not lacking in this area.
Stimulate cognitive abilities
Such games can be with a free access and also playable directly online, which also helps to explain its success, without necessarily trying to be sophisticated as happens, for example, with the famous Solitary on the side of card games.
A promise that often accompanies these games is that of stimulate cognitive abilities. All in all logical in the sense that they require at least efforts of concentration, sometimes even of memory. However, other virtues are attributed to them, such as stress management or other.
In the era of hybrid work, Microsoft sees it helpful for work and productivity. And for this the Redmond group dared to introduce such games random within its platform Teams. A surprise with this collaborative instant messaging and video conferencing solution for meetings.
Several team buildings
For the customers Microsoft team in business and education, Games for work collect games Microsoft icebreaker (variant of This or that), Solitary, Word (game of letters) and the iconic minesweeper (deminer).
without ads, these games are multiplayer (from 2 to 250 players). Second Microsoftthey must foster creativity, collaboration and communication. A Brigham Young University study is cited to point out that teams that play short video games are 20% more productive than those that participate in more common team building activities.
Games for work to Teams it should evolve over time and based on user feedback. However, don’t count on seeing games appear there. YYYY…
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