Video games According to Matthew Gallant‚ a game designer and software engineer‚ video game is software which displays images on a video screen‚ interacts with a player or players and is intended to provide challenge and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer. http://gangles.ca/2009/01/03/defining-video-games/ A study conducted by Chen and Yang (2011) shows that some video games such as “The Sims” can be useful for language learning. The result of their study shows that students considered
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Nintendo? I got my first video game console in the summer of 1991. My parents purchased it from SEARS for my birthday and at which point I had no idea what it was. A couple of the kids and their parents knew that it was and were shocked that my parents spend $100 dollars on something like that. It was still in the box until one afternoon I came home from school. I set it up in the living room‚ only room with a television. Popped in Super Mario Bros‚ this simple 8-bit game would change the
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Video game controversies are unresolved societal and scientific arguments about whether or not the content of video games can change the behavior and attitudes of a player. Since the early 1980s‚ advocates of video games have emphasized their use as an expressive medium‚ arguing for their protection under the laws governing freedom of speech and also as an educational tool. Detractors argue that video games are harmful and therefore should be subject to legislative oversight and restrictions. The
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play video games may be more technologically competent. In many schools‚ computers and technology are used as teaching tools. Some video games also promote fine motor skills‚ which assist children in writing‚ cutting and other activities that draw on the dexterity and manipulation of the fingers. Psychologist Dr. Drew Messer performed studies between 2001 and 2007 involving adults and children and concluded that video gaming can enhance cooperation and fine motor skills. Video games require
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Malia Morgan March 28‚ 2014 English 50 Cheryl Foster “Video Games Can Be Helpful to College Students” In the article‚ “Video Games Can Be Helpful to College Students‚” by Scott Carlson‚ he discusses a study that examined the effect of video games on college students. The report he says‚ “suggests that video games are a vital and positive part of college students social lives‚ even though games may be keeping them from their studies. I believe that this can be true because there seems
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the bowlers and began to fully support Afridi. He completed his half-century by playing keen and beautiful shots. When he was at a score of 88‚ the first slip caught him smartly. In this way‚ the first wicket of Pakistan fell at a total of 130. After him‚ Shahid Afridi could not steadily face the bowlers and proceeded towards the pavilion in a short time. Ejaz Ahmed began his batting when the Pakistani team was playing at 135. Along with Inzamamum ul Haq‚ he pulled up the score to
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computer game composing of two to ten or twelve players where you can choose from over ninety unique characters you can play on. It requires focus‚ strategy‚ quick hands and quick thinking when you are in difficult situations. The objective of the scenario is to destroy the opponents’ "Ancient". The two teams’ ancients are heavily guarded structures at opposing corners of the map. The game is popular in many parts of the world; in the Philippines and Thailand‚ it is played as much as the game Counter-strike
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with me. This‚ either for work and tourist travels. I like to travel too‚ although I can’t make it as much as I desire because I don’t have enough money and time. It’s not necessary they are long travels; also a short trip is always an enrichment in my life. Also a travel for work can be interesting‚ if I use the hours of free time to make some tours in the town where I stay. In Bandung‚ where I have often be sent for some duty activity by the unit for which I work‚ this is possible and pleasant;
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educational video game? An educational video game is a video game that provides educational value to the player. Including reading‚ writing‚ calculation‚ and history or science. Why do we need these games? We need them because they help us have better critical thinking in school. They also help us in timing for example in some games you have to do the fastest time and if we don’t we will lose. Students learn through the process of playing the game. By playing educational video games students can
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They play the computer games for all the time and neglect their study in school.It will cause that computer games can never live apart from them‚ so I agree that playing computer games is a waste of time. First of all‚ playing computer games will waste plenty of time.Time is very precious to us today. We should be concentrate and pay more attention to our studies rather than wasting time playing the computer games. If we spend too much of time focus in the computer games‚ of course‚we can’t get
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