According to a report from NPD, which tracks the video game business, a stunning 56 million Americans are and have played playing web-based social games. That’s a huge number, especially considering that social games have only taken off during the last few years. Users bought $2.2 billion worth of online goods last year, and NPD expects that number to top $6 billion in 2013.

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According to rumors, or actually, according the the VP of Chinese game developer Handseeing Information Technology Co., Apple is in talks with the company and is reportedly offering $1 billion yuan, or $148 millions USD for it. Apple hasn’t revealed anything and never talks about potential acquisitions, so we’ll have to wait and see what happens.

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During a recent interview, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said that their battle with Sony is over (saying that Nintendo has won), and now the main enemy and competitor is Apple and its mobiel devices (iPhone, iPad and iPod). Apple’s mobile devices offer games a lot more games than Nintendo does on the DS, at lower prices — typical DS games cost $30, while the average price for an iPhone game is less than $10.

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Location based social game/network has announced that they’ve hit 1 million members. That translates to 100,000 new members each week since the service launched - which was only last December.

The iPhone based game has since climbed to Apple’s top 50 grossing list, which means that users are actually spending money on the app.

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Some of you might not care about what I’m going to talk about today.  Some of you may have a pretty blistering typing speed already.  But I followed Mextena back to their advice blog and came back with a pretty good idea:a few resources to help you with your typing speed.

Because let’s face it–blogging runs on typing.  We pound keys every day for the sake of our readership, and if we can’t clock out the word count then we let our readers down.

So here are some resources to help you punch the keys.

Clockwords: Prelude.  This is a game I found on Kongregate, and basically requires you to type words to charge a gun which blasts robot spiders with words.  It’s pretty fun, though it can get kind of frantic pretty quickly.  The faster you type, the more iron you’ll put in the air and send those spiders packing.

Typing Test. com.  You can determine your max words per minute, error rate and get some help here.  See if you can beat my fifty eight words per minute with ninety-six percent accuracy rate.

EHow’s typing guide.  Here are some great tips, although I’m not sure how useful “take a class” really is.  I actually did take a class back in high school, and I tell you, touch typing really does make things go faster.

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Got a Mac and bored out of your mind? If you like playing games, Mac Games and More is a site you might want to take a look at. Over at Mac Games and More, you’ll see all sorts of cool mac games and other applications. The site is constantly updated so you can find new mac games that are available on the web. Want to be able to play solitaire on your Mac like you can with your PC? Then download the Mac solitaire game!

Though I don’t play much games on my Mac, I like this site because of the fact that it looks for the best and coolest mac software and games that can entertain Mac users. An RSS feed is also available for users to subsribe to keep up with new updates. If you still have nothing to do right now, head on to Mac Games and More!

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