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Online Gaming Communities in Croatia

There is a big number of video games on the market, and a large variety of video game genres. They became a part of new media due to increase in popularity of computers, game consoles, and the gaming themselves, and we see emergence of e-sports and impressive revenues in gaming industry. Most of those games have fans who are a part of of one or more gaming com munities, which are dedicated to video games and are connected with the video game culture, which, by now, can be viewed as a specific subculture. The structures of such communities are complex, with an video game title in the center of them. A lot of community members self-identify as gamers. This work explores and describes the most common online gaming communities in Croatia. The results will showcase which of the online gaming communities are the most prevalent in Croatia, as well as their structure.

gaming communities, gaming clan, massively multiplayer online games, video games, users

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