Focusing upon a local gathering place for gamers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Team Play: Kids in the Café explored the social context in which teenagers are making use of video games at a cyber café. The study highlights two styles of game play at the café: solo teenagers playing a real-time strategy game by themselves and groups of teenagers playing first-person shooters together. Despite their differences, each style is highly social and demonstrates that online video games can be seen as a venue for maintaining friendships across vast distances or providing additional social activities on top of traditional ones such as basketball or football.