One of the fastest growing industries in the world is the video game industry, where $24.8 billion was projected to be spent on video games globally in 2013 (Park & Lee, 2011). Resulting from this growth is a growing community of video game players, or gamers, generating new ways to interact and socialize. During the early years of video games, many games had the objective of obtaining a high score, where the champion could display their three initials—until someone surpassed it. Many video games
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Buy your video games used. Video games are expensive. Even so, many people insist on buying them new. The reasoning behind this is that used games will be damaged or faulty. Most retailers check their used games before bringing them into their stock. Buy used and save your receipts, just in case. The savings is well worth the minor risk. It is always best to try out a game demo for a little bit before you purchase it. This can help you decide if the game is right for you. Be careful, though, where
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Gaurav Sapra Dr. Gloria Olchowy English 111 Nov 2, 2015 Violence in Video Games : A poison or a booster For over half a century, people have been competing against one another by playing video games, and the number of players seems to be increasing all the time. Thus, it's not surprising that the effects of the games, especially the violent ones, spark so much debate. Some people see the games as an important instrument for entertainment and education, while others
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Video Games Displaying Negative effects on Children’s Behavior Today video games are becoming entertainment for many children. Video games are more popular and known for kids personally coming from me. There are plenty classes of video games that amuse kids. For example sport games, simulation, shooting, and strategy games. Children may come in contact with many different varieties of video games in today’s world. In my opinion I personally think some video games can have negative effects on
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Video games and aggressive behavior have been linked by many researchers today. The gamer may become aggressive to himself and to others by the video games he plays and the violent traits he can acquire from the game. Observing this link through a psychological viewpoint, the social-cognitive perspective would best explain the link between video games and aggression. The social-cognitive theory states that behavior is shaped by environmental factors and cognitive factors. (Nevid, 9) The gaming environment
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The Last of Us is an action survival horror video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released worldwide on June 14, 2013. The location of the game is based on a post-apocalyptic United States. The game follows our main protagonist Joel who is a “black market dealer within the quarantine zone, selling drugs and weapons of sorts” (IGN). He is tasked with smuggling Ellie, a young girl, to a group called the Fireflies in order to find a cure to put an end
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Video games today have evolved from the basic structures of Pong and Space Invaders to have complex and film-like narratives. In many ways, games and film are very similar. Despite the similarities, how do video games approach storytelling differently than film, and does this affect the audience? The critical difference between storytelling in games and movies is how each medium engages its audience. Games transform the simple observer to a grand director. With active engagement, versus passive engagement
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Have you heard of Minecraft? It is the coolest game on the market. Minecraft is a game where you can play as a character and do tons of stuff such as explore, play with friends, and you have to survive. It’s initial release date on October 7, 2011, and Minecraft’s first beta was released on December 20, 2010. Minecraft is cool because you can build anything, you can play other creations or make your own, and you can download mods to make it like real life. One reason Minecraft is cool because you
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How Grand Theft Auto III Made an Impact Grand Theft Auto III was very influential on the appearance of gaming. This game’s storyline and all its blood, strong language, and violence are entirely focused on adult consumers. The pause menu contained a page called the status page, which showed how many things you have completed throughout a significantly complex map. This game included another very interesting feature that involved radios stations in cars that continuously re-played set soundtracks
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The Last of Us by the Makers ‘Naughty Dog’ is arguably one of the best games to have been made and certainly one of the best games to have been made for the PS3. Because of this there are many reviews based around The Last of Us and because of this I have chosen to focus my study on a review written by the webpage ‘GiantBomb’. The Last of Us has been reviewed as one of the best story lines to have been written for a game because it focuses on tragedy and the natural paternal instinct that the player
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