I find this to be an interesting route for online games to be taking. We’re starting to now see a number of them targeted toward a younger audience, which never seemed to be the case with past online game titles. In a lot of ways, I find this to be rather telling. There is, of course, a sizable segment of gamers out there in the world that are rather young. Plenty of traditional games are created to suite this audience, but few online games are. As society becomes more and more connected to the Internet, people of younger and younger ages are becoming citizens of the web.

While none of these games will be pushing the graphical levels high, it also shows a continued step toward more browser-based games, which seems to be a new trend gaining popularity. I’m curious to see how this trend will develop as well – but time will tell on this one. Games that run through a browser aren’t likely to ever compare with the performance you could get out of a local copy, but there is a certain amount of convenience to it as well. Then again, most of these sorts of games require sizable plugin installs anyway.