Video Gaming: Brought to you by Broadband

USTelecom has unveiled our latest Broadband Now vidcast - our video series talking about how broadband benefits consumers in everything from health care, to education, to the environment, to entertainment.

This edition focuses on entertainment - specificially video games and online gaming.  As you may know, videos games aren't just fun and games - they're big business today.  U.S. sales of video games, from connected consoles to PC games, topped $25 billion in 2007, and are the fastest growing segment of the entertainment industry.  Online games - often in the form of massively multiplayer online games - are a big part of that growth.   Blizzard Entertainment, the maker of category leader "World of Warcraft," brought in a cool $1.2 billion in 2007, mostly from monthly $15 subscriptions.

Learn more about what gaming means to the broadband business and our modern, connected lives by watching online here.