...are seen as recreational, lacking any sort of substantial benefit or hazard for the gamer. What many fail to see is the adverse effects that video games do have on people, leaving many with fictitious perceptions of war, but also how they may be harnessed productively as for soldiers partaking in actual combat. Beginning with games such as Space Invaders in 1978 to today’s Gears of War, the depictions of mayhem have always been present, but today have become so realistic. Although video games may seem insignificant, they can be very beneficial for a soldiers training but also harmful to the general public creating a false sense of reality. As ongoing improvement of technology as a whole has taken place, video games have recently become incredibly realistic. Day by day, makeshift warfare in people’s living rooms is turning into reality. With such new features as vibrating controllers, HD televisions, and surround sound speakers gamers are put right in the middle of the action. War-based games have seen much recent success and have become so popular in society today because people are curious about what its like to be a soldier. By putting gamers in simulated war, simulations are as real as ever and give gamers a sense that they are actually partaking in the fight. Unlike passive movies such as Saving Private Ryan or Peal Harbor, video games are not only using visual frames for their gamers, but interactive ones too. Though through participation, players may lose sight of...
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...actually all that harmful to avid gamers and their lives. The brain is constantly expanding and growing from what is being exposed to it, and this is exactly what these researchers have been examining—both scientifically and psychologically. A few German Researchers have found that gamers, who played Super Mario 64 (for a half hour each day for 60 days), “had a rise in gray matter in the right hippocampus, right prefrontal cortex and the cerebellum”. All of these areas in the brain help with these gamers’ memories and recollections. With the continuous motions of the hands, and eyes on the game, these gamers are developing great hand-eye coordination which may benefit them in their lives outside of gaming versus if they had not played any of their video games. Psychological tests conducted by Queen Mary University and the University College London have shown that those gamers who played either “Starcraft” or “The Sims” (for forty hours between six and eight weeks) were able to complete even more complex cognitive tasks at a much faster rate than before and with a much greater accuracy rating. The researchers have noted that due to the consistency of movement on the screen, and the attentiveness to the video game, helps improve these cognitive skills and the accuracy at which things are noticed all due to playing a video game. Many of these researchers have also found that gaming slows the aging process. It has been proven that if gamers play “brain-teasing” games for...
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...Video games have become one of the biggest industries in the world. They are designed to be played by people of all ages but often are targeted towards children. Every new game can generate headlines both positive and negative leaving parents questioning how exactly their children will be affected. Information supports that playing video games excessively can have adverse reactions for children by impacting their studies, changing their moods, and altering their social interaction abilities. Studies have shown that there are high rates of psychiatric illnesses in people with internet and gaming addictions. Major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and anxiety spectrum disorders have been observed. Video games can impact children’s academic progress by cutting into the time dedicated to studying. It can also change the way the interact with other children with the potential to make them more hostile if they have played games which train them to act in hostile manners (Merzenich, 2011). Studies have shown that video games are essentially training the brain to act in certain ways. If we practice being aggressive then we will act aggressively instinctually. The training can improve cognitive functions, but the benefits of this type of training are usually specific to the game and have very little carry over in day to day practical use. Gaming addiction can also interfere with their daily life just like any other addiction (Han, Renshaw, 2011). The ability...
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...forces will also be discussed as to how they play a role in Nintendo’s future. Finally, the buyers, suppliers, rival firms, new entrants and substitute products will be analyzed to construct a clearer picture of Nintendo’s competitive environment. Demographically, the videogame entertainment software industry is broadening. What used to be a younger, male-dominated industry is becoming more diversified with new needs, interests and demands from consumers. 40% of all gamers are female; the average age of a gamer is 34 years old; and 75% of gamers are 18 or older.1 These few, simple statistics highlight incredible opportunities for Nintendo. In fact, Nintendo is currently pursuing this strategically; it is pioneering the way for gamers, old and young, male and female, new or experienced, to 2 enjoy its products. In a 2010 poll, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (esrb) found that 80% of female console users primarily played the Wii, compared to 11% Xbox360 and 9% PS3.1 Similarly, older gamers are...
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...Computers in Human Behavior 29 (2013) 1872–1878 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Computers in Human Behavior journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/comphumbeh (A)Social reputation: Exploring the relationship between online video game involvement and social competence Rachel Kowert a,⇑, Julian A. Oldmeadow b a b Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft, University of Münster, Münster 48143, Germany Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Affordable and accessible Internet has changed the way video games are played, allowing individuals to connect worldwide in shared gaming spaces. On the surface participation within these environments may seem socially beneficial, as these highly social, playful spaces allow players to connect, interact with, and learn from others. However, there is a growing concern that increased participation within online gaming environments comes with a wide variety of social consequences, contributing to numerous losses in ‘offline’ sociability. While considerable research has examined these claims, consistent relationships between social competence and online video game involvement have yet to be established. The current work (N = 515) aimed to examine the extent to which online video game involvement may support, or undermine, the development and maintenance of traditional social skills. The results indicate that there are unique relationships...
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...Final Paper 100% Biswajit Panja WEBD311 Date What is there to Web Games? In this day and age, there is a web game that is either on every page on the internet or at least an advertisement to direct a person that is exploring on the internet to a web game. Since, there are so many web games on the internet, not very many people know what really happens behind the scenes of the web game. This essay would go into details on making the web games, how long it is to make a web game, who the targeted audience is, and what are the pros and cons of playing web games or video games. The first paragraph would be explaining on how long it would take to complete a web game with a team of experts and how many personal it would take. What I have found out from the internet that some companies have upwards of 5,000 personal to help create web games and video games. “The Epic has a total of 160 employees. Blizzard actually has a total of 4,700 employees to create games. Bungie has 500 people to help make the games. Turtle rock has anywhere from 50 to 200 personal that work on games. Valve has 300 programmers. Finally, Riot has a total of 1,000 people.” (forums.unrealengine.com) Most of the web game developer companies have a certain way of making games. These specializations of the people are there to complete the web game in the most professional way. They are the animators, digital video-sound editor, game programmers, producer/director, technical artist/3D artist, and testers. I could...
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...product – the first of its kind • Lower price than most comparable competitor PS3 Weakness: • Expensive hardware and games • Production flows • Direct competition with Nintendo because of equally large customer base Opportunity • Penetration of new markets in ME • Penetration of untouched markets by means of bundling • Partnership with Hollywood studios Threat • Lower cost competitor i.e. Nintendo • Anti trust issues in Europe • Hardware complication Sony Play Station 3 Strength: • Integration of next generation DVD players • Backward compatibility with previous PS2 • Mostly Free Online product • Recent decline in profits Weakness: • Expensive hardware and games Opportunity • Great product lunch covering global spectrum. • Penetration of new markets in ME • Penetration of untouched markets by means of bundling • Partnership with Hollywood studios Threat • Lower cost competitor i.e. Nintendo • Delays in production • Constant strategy change Nintendo Wii Strength: • Uniqueness of hardware motion detection • Low cost hardware and software • Intuitive usage Weakness: • Joystick liability • Limited selection of software Opportunity •...
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...PC Gaming | | Ryan Mills 4-24-2014 | PCs are a good choice for gaming for a multitude of reasons, including but not limited to price, reparability, upgradability, value, versatility, performance, game selection, game prices, and more. Computers are an ever-evolving platform. It grows in power, capability, and value almost every single year. The cause of this improvement is partially because it is free of control from any single entity. Rather than being regulated by a single company, control and improvement influence over the PC belongs to everyone equally. Everybody has the freedom to create and/or sell software and hardware for it. It's being constantly improved by competing companies and individuals all over the hardware spectrum, and all of them are trying to offer you (and game developers) the best experience possible. A common misconception is that pc gaming is more expensive than consoles. It is not. Especially if you only plan to target console performance. There are already graphics cards available on the market for $150 that surpass the PS4 and XBox One in terms of frame rate, resolution, detail, value, and power draw. A lot of people incorrectly believe that you have to spend upwards of $750-$1000 to get a PC fully capable of handling games. These inaccuracies can be attributed partially to the highly vocal and misinformed masses, and to the availability and hype of the expensive PC hardware we see advertised a lot. You see it more because it's advertised...
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...receive data only. VOIP Phones: uses both voice and data networks to send and receive data Skype/Facetime: uses both voice and data networks to send and receive data Practice Activity 2: Local Exchange: When you start your PC and log into an online game your PC takes a long journey to the gaming center, your fellow players make the same journey to the same game server. The journey starts with your PC getting online through your LAN passing through your switch via CAT5 cable onto the WAN (wide area network) generally with Fiber Optic cable. It then passes through a Central Office with your ISP and onto the gaming center office where it enters through their switch onto their routers and servers. This happens on a broader spectrum connecting many “gamers” together to provide the online gaming experience. Activity 1 Data and Fixed line VS Cellular debate Fixed line networks can be more reliable than cellular. Disconnected cables can disable land lines, but these problems are easily remedied. On the other hand, cellular networks are plagued by several different issues because they rely on a network cellular towers and satellites. In some areas, cellular networks can be plagued by harsh weather conditions. Because data is transmitted via a fixed medium, land line phones are more secure than cell phones. Cellular networks are more susceptible to hackers and viruses because users can bring in or download...
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...While some of these may be cheaper, you will have problems getting them repaired when things go wrong and most consoles are restricted to playing games (and DVDs) to a specific part of the world so buying Imported consoles could make life difficult for yourself in the long term. For the older games players looking to reminisce over their youth, there is continual interest in retro gaming and while old computers and games consoles don't tend to appear in classified adverts too often, they can be fantastic value for money. The obvious great bargains are the seminal classics Commodore 64 and Sinclair Spectrum along with the Sega Megadrive and Nintendo SNES. The great thing with retro gaming is that old consoles and computers generally hold very little value to anyone apart from those looking to buy them, so you can often pick up some fantastic deals, just don't always expect all of the games and accessories to be in full working order! Looking into the PC camp, prices of new PCs are dropping daily and hardware is becoming more reliable. While this is great if you are buying new, it makes buying second hand systems harder when you are looking to get a PC that will be able to run more contemporary software and nigh-on-impossible if you're on a shoestring budget. The first thing to always bear in mind when shopping for a second hand PC is what...
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...Video games Effects on Children: Student’s Name: Institution’s Name; Date of submission: My topic is the effect of video on children. In America, 81% of young people play at any rate once per month, 8.5% of them are dependent and "the normal 8-to 12 year-old now plays 13 hours of computer games every week, while the normal 13-to 18 year old plays 14 hours of computer games every week" (Metrics 2.0, 2007). Since computer games are so unmistakable in children' lives, it is hard to keep them from playing computer games entirely– however is that even essential? Through the research of my topic, I hope to understand how video games are really affecting the lives of children. With such an assortment of amusement sorts out there, it is hard to say if computer games as a rule are great or awful.my argument is that, majority of parents today do not pay attention to the kind of videos that their children are watching and this could affect their development. Fortunately, there have been incalculable studies done on this and data on the upsides and downsides can be effectively found. Negatives of Video Games There are different sorts of computer games accessible in today's industry. Computer games are proposed to target distinctive parts of a tyke's life. These computer games are included an assortment of instructive, genuine, and easygoing diversions, yet as a general rule, what kid is going to pick an amusement about learning versus an amusement where they can slaughter zombies or...
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...plan 3. Business strategy 5 Tactics Strategic issues Core values 4. Marketing 6 SWOT and critical success factors Market research Distribution channels Strategic alliances E-commerce and technology Tactical promotion plan Marketing budget Credibility and risk reduction 5. Team and management structure 7 Skills, experience, training and retention Advisors Management systems 6. Financial budgets and forecasts 8 Profit and loss forecast Cash flow forecast Balance sheet forecast Capital expenditure budget Break-even analysis 1. Summary • HRD Gaming • We are a gaming business • We will be producing games which gives a unique experience to the gamers • We are a partnership business ran by 3 people – More money remaining to invest on other stuff 2. Business overview Introduction (HDR) Our business involves, 3 people, Hem Limbu, Dipesh Magar & Roshan Rai. Together we make the name HDR. We are a games developer. Our aim is to build accessories for different consoles and enhance their gaming performance. We started this business because we found out that there is huge demand for gaming accessories like the ones we manufacture. Current position What have you achieved so far? We have not achieved that much as we are new business. However we believe that this will change in the near future and we are likely to achieve greatness. Outline the current position of your...
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...John Daleske and Silas Warner created a simple space-craft war, your ship controlled by typed commands. This is thought to be the first ever networked multiplayer game (running on the PLATO network), before the internt as we now know it (Mark 2011). E-learning educators in particular stand to learn a lot about building next-generation learning environments from games. While online courses are usually little more than "online course notes," games offer entire worlds to explore (Gee 2005). While educators wonder if it is possible to create good online learning communities, game designers create virtual societies with their own cultures, languages, political systems, and economies. While completion rates for online courses barely reach 50%, gamers spend hundreds of hours mastering games, writing lengthy texts, and even setting up their own virtual "universities" to teach others to play games (Gee 2005). In short, games have developed a reputation for being fun, engaging, and immersive, requiring deep thinking and complex problem solving. These facts make functional and interactive games a necessity it the modern everyday classroom in schools or online. Implications, Uses, and Capabilities Some educators may still be suspicious of online learning games because of the amount of negative publicity video games have acquired from the educational realm, as well as off-putting criticism in the media. What teachers should know is that there is a huge difference between online learning...
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...Ensconced in the Captain's briefing room, Petchy stared in silence. The clip replayed for perhaps the tenth time. Or was it more like the one hundred and tenth? The entity who had taken control of the Z7M7-Z has to be Gharlane! No other explanation sufficed. The raw power displayed sent terror deep into his soul. Petch had long believed their foe was powerful. This wasn't just power, this was supernatural. As the Captain and his crew stood powerless, they had collected volumes of data on the incursion. Video, audio, sensor scans including the complete electromagnetic spectrum. Now quarantined, the impact of the incursion is the subject of intense analysis. It seems unlikely the entity would have allowed the recordings if there was anything...
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...Pre-Feasibility Study GAMING ZONE Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority Government of Pakistan www.smeda.org.pk HEAD OFFICE 6th Floor, LDA Plaza, Egerton Road, Lahore. Tel: (042) 111-111-456, Fax: (042) , 6304926, 6304927 Helpdesk@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL PUNJAB OFFICE 8th Floor, LDA Plaza, Egerton Road, Lahore. Tel: (042) 111-111-456 Fax: (042) 6304926, 6304927 helpdesk@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL SINDH OFFICE 5TH Floor, Bahria Complex II, M.T. Khan Road, Karachi. Tel: (021) 111-111-456 Fax: (021) 5610572 Helpdesk-khi@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE NWFP REGIONAL OFFICE BALOCHISTAN Ground Floor State Life Building The Mall, Peshawar. Tel: (091) 9213046-47 Fax: (091) 286908 helpdesk-pew@smeda.org.pk Bungalow No. 15-A Chaman Housing Scheme Airport Road, Quetta. Tel: (081) 2831623, 2831702 Fax: (081) 2831922 helpdesk-qta@smeda.org.pk March, 2009 Pre-feasibility Study Gaming Zone DISCLAIMER The purpose and scope of this information memorandum is to introduce the subject matter and provide a general idea and information on the said area. All the material included in this document is based on data/information gathered from various sources and is based on certain assumptions. Although, due care and diligence has been taken to compile this document, the contained information may vary due to any change in any of the concerned factors, and the actual results may differ substantially from the presented...
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