Ask any teenager today the number of hours they spend in front of their computer playing video games and the answer will surely startle you. Nowadays, youngsters spend a huge amount of time playing video games, thereby turning gaming into a mainstream industry. There are different genres of video games, each having its own fan following. Each year, gamers of each genre wait with bated breath for their favorite games to be released.

Some of the popular video game genres include the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game or MMORPG, the First Person Shooters or FPS, Arcade games like racing, simulation games and many more. There are certain other genres of games as well and these include the action and adventure, role-playing, real time strategy and third person shooter games. Each and every genre has their own set of sub categories.

First person shooter games require the player to play as if they are experiencing the game through their own eyes. Some of the other types of games include the flight simulation games where the gamer has to play the role of a pilot and the entire screen feels like the cockpit of an actual aeroplane. There are certain Real Time Strategy games where the players are given command of a certain map and they have to gather resources to build colonies, empires and fight wars.

The arcade racing games place the gamers at the driver's seat and allow them to compete with the fanciest cars of the world along with the best 3D rendering of the gaming environment. A massively popular genre of games includes the MMORPG where players from all over the world come together and play the game live, thanks to their Internet connections. The opportunity of playing with an actual person rather than the Artificial Intelligence of the game makes these MMORPG so famous.