INFOGRAPHIC: 26 Million users Play Social Games on their Mobile Devices

The guys over at Rounds have been researching a lot around the social networking gaming industry, and they created a truly awesome and informative infographic about the evolution of social gaming.This infographic will take you from the early stages of gaming in 1972 to today’s billion dollar gaming industry, and all within this infographic. One of the most successful social media games is of course FarmVille, but there are countless of other games that are bagging money by the boatload. If you have ever played a social game, you know exactly how addictive those games are. That is exactly why social gaming is such a huge industry. What would you say are the most addictive social games and why do you think you keep playing them? Have a look at the infographic below, and click to enlarge it.

[Sources: BitRebels]

Volkswagen BlueMotion: Real Time Roulette

 

Volkswagen is known for some really innovative online stuff. This time they turned a Norway road into a real time game of roulette using Google Maps. In order to highlight the main feature of the new Golf BlueMotion car (it’s low fuel consumption), in a meaningful and memorable way to consumers, Volkswagen created the BlueMotion Roulette game. To do this they drove a Golf BlueMotion up Norway’s route E6 on a single tank of diesel and encouraged users to bet on when the car would run out of fuel. The winner would get the car.

INFOGRAPHIC: 38% Smartphone users say they cannot survive without Mobile Apps

 

When the smartphone came around, we started a new era in online activity. The amount of online time in our lives skyrocketed, and we started doing pretty much everything on the Internet. We pretty much never logged out. Downtime was cut to a minimum, and even after we left the office, we continued to work like maniacs just to please the boss in hopes of a raise or even a promotion. If you are a freelancer or business owner, you definitely know what I am talking about.

SocialCast, has released a new infographic about the Mobile Workforce. You can click on the image to enlarge it:

INFOGRAPHIC: An average Farmville-r plays more than 5400 minutes a year

An infographic put together by Hasai, a social media strategy firm that explores Americans’ use of social media, reports that the 63 million active FarmVille players spend an average of 15 minutes a day, totaling 5,475 minutes a year tending to their digital crops.

The infographic also shares an interesting statistic overall: Online video games, the second most heavily-used Internet activity, make up 10 percent of all Internet activity in the U.S. And yes, that includes Facebook gaming. Honestly, I thought this percentage would have been larger, considering the amount of online gaming platforms there are even outside of Facebook. You can click on the infographic below to get a larger view: