Gaming Genres Continue to Blend

The APCW is reporting in its latest video (embedded below) the trend of the merging of skill gaming and wagering, particularly social gaming and online gambling. The Zynga story, which I have posted previously here, is mentioned as well as information that Caesars Entertainment is looking at expanding into social games. I strongly encourage the reader to regularly check out the APCW site and its videos, which are quite informative and entertaining.

Over time, expect some of the most successful gaming companies to offer a mix of skill games and wagering games, to perhaps even include sports betting. The advent of large scale online sports betting in the United States will likely be the last to come, but the trend is for expanded, rather than restricted gambling.

As reported in an earlier post, gaming can be explained pictorially as a spectrum of offerings, from simple card and board games played for fun, to casino games played for money. It should not be a surprise that gaming companies are opening themselves to the full possibilities of gaming that they can offer.