Video games are everywhere. You can play them on your video game console, on your smartphone, and on your computer. Even on a smart TV. And thanks to the Internet you can play with your friends and acquaintances shortening the distances, each one at home.

You can play from your Android or iPhone, from your PC or Mac from PlayStation, Nintendo Switch, or Xbox. Sharing games with other players. And no ping or latency issues that keep you from having fun playing games to play with friends online.

There are tons of online games. Here we make a list of the games for gamers that are talked about the most lately, classic games converted to online, and repositories of minigames for you to enjoy with your friends wherever you are.

Games for gamers

Nobody knows what the key to success is. No matter how much money you invest, you don’t know if your game will succeed or not. There are games like  Grand Theft Auto V  that continue to be bought by the handful year after year. On this occasion, it was released in 2013. To its credit, it has the record of having coexisted with three generations of consoles, from PlayStation 3 to PlayStation 5 and from Xbox 360 to Xbox X.

But since the story is not only about the Great Theft Auto, here is a list of the most popular games to play online.

• Fortnite continues to be one of the most talked-about games. This multiplayer, available for all platforms, consists of fighting against other players,  up to a maximum of one hundred, in scenarios that allow us to hide, hide and ambush the rival. You can go on your own or create teams, choose your characters, or from other games or movies. And from time to time it holds special events with surprises for the players.

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• Minecraft surprised everyone with its pixelated graphics and simple premise. Break blocks and create objects and elements by combining blocks. InMinecraftyou can play practically anything, alone or with a team. Build what you want, see how others play, survive the nocturnal creatures, or create your maps. It is one of the most creative games to play with friends online. It is even played in schools and institutes.
• Fall Guys is the newest video game of this selection. LikeFornite, it is a Battle Royale game, but with characters that seem made of jelly in the most colorful settings. Available for PlayStation, Windows, Switch, and Xbox, in addition to the main game mode toggles random multiplayer minigames in which you have to compete or collaborate.
• Among Us stars in a curious story. When it was released, it was only played by a few players. But when it started appearing in twitch games of well-known players, everyone signed up to play this interesting multiplayer game. It consists of discovering the impostor. And this one must kill each player. A board game classic translated into a game to play with your friends online and set in a spaceship.
• Brawl Stars is available for iOS and Android and has managed to be one of the most successful games to play with friends online. Curiously, it was launched at the same time as Fortnite, a game with which it shares the graphics style and game dynamics. Come on, it is a Battle Royale-type game with multiplayer games, special events, etc.
• Roblox is very similar to Minecraft and has also managed to reap success with the same premise: create games within a game with pixelated graphics. On this occasion, you can enter maps created by other users, play alone or with friends, etc. It can be played on consoles, computers, and smartphones and can be played by players ages 8 and up.

Lifelong games

Before video games, to have fun with your friends at home you had to go to board games. Some of them are still being sold today, and other lifelong games have been played by parents, grandparents, and great-great-grandparents. Here is a short selection adapted to the Internet to play with friends and strangers.

• The  Parcheesi is one of the oldest table games. Nowadays you can play it online thanks to proposals such as  Parcheesi from MundiJuegos, or  Parcheesi from Playspace. You will also find versions for iPhone, iPad, and Android, free and paid.
• Monopoly is one of those games that has fans and detractors alike. A game that lasts for hours and has broken friendships, in which no one can trust anyone. If you want to play it online, you can do it with the official Monopoly available in several versions for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. There is also a version for iPhone, iPad, and Android. In mobile stores, you will find free and paid alternatives with similar names and with online mode.
• The  Domino is another board game that has passed from generation to generation. Today you can play online thanks to proposals like  Domino FR9,  Domino MundiJuegos, or  Domino Playspace. There are also mobile versions in the iOS and Android app stores for all tastes, such as MundiJuegos.

Minigames were one of the first Internet pages to provide this service. Today it offers games of all kinds, to play alone or against other players. Besides, they are classified by category or type of game, so that it does not cost you to find the ideal game to kill the time. It also has a section for mobile minigames.

The SpaceX tycoon loves to participate in social networks and usually answers many questions from his follower’s thanks to which we know him a little more, or maybe not.

Elon Musk’s entire professional career has been focused on technological innovation, his passion seems to be to promote technology sectors before anyone else and turn them into great successes. One of his first successes would be the company that is known today as PayPal, and then Tesla and SpaceX would come among others.

His passion for technology is well known, his family has recounted in countless interviews what Musk was like as a child and the bond he had with machines. It would not be strange if he was also passionate about video games.

After all, many engineers and experts in various technological areas discovered their passion for programming and technology with the gaming world. A connecting bridge that is more alive than ever. And that is precisely why many of his followers often ask him about video games on social networks.

Musk usually has no qualms about answering and opening a debate on the networks, especially on Twitter. Therefore, when faced with this question: “what is your favorite video game of all time? ” The user adds that he has just bought a PS4 and does not know which title to start with. In response, Musk provides a complete list of titles that surely all sound familiar to you.

• Mass effect 2
• Deus Ex
• Half-life 2
• Bioshock
• Fallout 3
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Saints Row IV

You can see on Twitter the rest of the comments in which they suggest other video games and criticize or applaud their choice, we already know how networks work. The funny thing is that at the beginning of the year, Musk sent another tweet somewhat different.

The same user (it is a coincidence) asks him again: “Despite being from the PC team, have you played any console titles? If so, what has been your favorite? “. To which Musk replies: ” Halo only.”

We do not know if here he means that he has only played Halo on the console or that his only favorite game is Halo. Musk has stated on other occasions that he preferred video games on PC more than one console, although at each moment he answers a different thing. Tastes change over time, that is clear and we cannot take at face value everything that is said on the networks. 

More and more indications from different sources point in the same direction: We will have a review of the Nintendo Switch console this year.

In true that the Nintendo Switch Pro takes circulating since 2018. And surely Nintendo would have already launched or announced it if it were not for the pandemic, which has delayed everything, and because the standard Nintendo Switch is selling so much that it does not need renewal.

Why take out a new console if the current one is taken out of your hands?

But with the next-gen PS5 and Xbox Series X consoles now on sale (well, that’s to say, because there’s no stock), the Nintendo Switch has lagged far behind. Especially when you connect it to a TV. So for some time, Nintendo has been planning a Pro version that offers things as basic as 4K output, now that practically all new TVs use this resolution.

These days two pieces of news have emerged that in principle have no relation to each other, since one is from NVIDIA and the other from Samsung, but if they together, they give us new clues that almost ensure a Nintendo Switch Pro console for the next few months.
The Nintendo Life website mentions a document published at the beginning of the year by Samsung itself, which had gone unnoticed until now. In this document, Samsung explains to investors its intention to bring its OLED screens from mobile phones to other markets, such as consoles, this year :

” We intend to aggressively position Samsung’s OLED technology in promising market sectors that will take us well beyond smartphones, including the laptop, automotive, and gaming console segments, ” the document explains.

Currently, the only video game console that has a screen is the Nintendo Switch. This is in line with previous rumors from the past few weeks that the Switch Pro will carry a 7-inch OLED screen from Samsung.
The other news, completely disjointed but subtly related, is another rumor that NVIDIA stops making the Tegra X1 chip used by the Nintendo Switch this year.

According to Gameractor, a source working at NVIDIA has assured them that this SoC, used by the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite, will no longer be manufactured in 2021.

It does not offer more data, but the most logical explanation could be that Nintendo plans to market the Nintendo Switch Pro, with a new Tegra chip. This chip is rumored to have 4K output and next-gen technologies like DLSS AI filtering.

Even so, it would be strange if Nintendo stopped selling the current Switch because the logical thing would be to keep both: the Pro as a new console, and the cheaper standard. Maybe he’s planning two versions of the new Tegra …

We will see how much of all this becomes a reality in the coming months.