It is funny how something that was not even around in the early 1990s is now a massive industry set to reach $196 billion in global revenues by 2022. In just two decades, online gaming has exploded in popularity to a point where most gamers cannot fathom a world without it. No doubt that this past year was the strangest one in recent history. However, while most industries suffered, and many are still on the brink of collapse, online gaming rose to become a social lifeline and prospered. The NPD Group stated that the number of consumers playing games in…