Every day, over a million people log onto different Internet-based games. There is truly something for everyone in the gaming world. Games provide a quick escape from  51 . Game developers are the new breed of storytellers, creating alternative  52 . Games represent the ultimate interactive movie, allowing the user to control the direction of the plot.

And now the newest technologies allow you to play games no matter where you are. At home, we have PC or video game consoles  53 , a desktop or laptop computer can be loaded with OS-bundled games or Web-based freebies. Even while traveling, there are many wireless computers, portable devices, wireless phones and PDAs  54 .

Games are now pushing back all the  55  once placed upon them by technology, category, realism, location and time. These advances are helping to push games into the  56  of virtual reality. Thus, the stuff of science fiction novels is gradually emerging, the graphic aspects of the game quickly  57 . Initially, electronic games involved  58  moving blocks across a TV or computer screen.  59  the vast increases in processing power, games are quickly approaching three-dimensional realism. This power allows a developer to create a  60  world where a gamer can look around in full 360-degree vision.