Jillian Marcus Prof. Reitinger Eng 121-115 23 Oct. 2012 Video Games and Violence: Is There A Link? Society today surrounds itself in wraps of violence and gore. Popular action movies like The Dark Knight and The Hunger Games are driven by a sadistic taste for heroic kills and survival violence. Music such as rap and hip-hop focus on harassment and abuse. News stations don’t hesitate to present graphic depictions of victims from the latest serial killer. In a world where barbarity runs so rampant
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Violent Video Game Debate: Position: Against Hook: A lot of people in this room alone have probably at least once played a violent video game or at least have seen someone play a game that is violent. Games such as Call of Duty‚ Halo‚ or Gears of War. Heck I own all three of those games‚ but that’s beside the point. What good can come out of playing games where you repetitively kill others and see some ridiculous gory images? Honestly what good can come out of this when developing minds are playing
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You Should Let Your Children Play Video Games Please! Stop blaming video games! Video games are frowned upon by parents as time-wasters‚ but even worse‚ some education experts believe these type of games corrupt the brain. However‚ have you ever thought that video games could be educational? The video games phenomenon is somewhat new in this modern society. Despite the fact that they are often very entertaining‚ the majority of parents dislike video games since the contents have become more
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Video Games and the Benefits They Bring Since the mid 1980’s the popularity of video games has spread like wildfire. With updates to current technology we have gone from the very basic games such as Pong‚ Mario‚ and Tetris to the vast lifelike expansive worlds of games like Mass Effect‚ Skyrim and Diablo. As our technology grows‚ so does the realism in our video games. We have gone from a ball and a stick moving back and forth to a vast list of choices that a player can make while exploring
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plays video games. From kids to adults‚ we all go through the phase of video games. Some are violent others aren’t. So which ones are good for you and which aren’t? Well I believe that video games in general are just games. They do not harm anything or anyone. Violent video games do not cause violent behavior. Just because you go around shooting people on a television doesn’t mean your going to run around the street killing people. This misconception is often misunderstood. It’s just a game. Your
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Don’t Blame the Video Games The video games have been a source of entertainment for many over the past few years and over the years its consumers are growing in number. It is a source of digital entertainment and does not trigger violent behavior or the violent crimes. It is not a new trend anymore as the games have been around for as early as the 1990s. Parents and guardians strongly believe that most games have violent content thus prohibit their children from playing as they believe it might
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Microeconomics of the Video Game Industry Video games have been around for years with many different types of consoles and games. The video game industry has grown into a $20 billion dollar industry over the past ten years‚ and it only shows signs of growing larger in the years to come. In the United States alone‚ the market has grown considerably where 60% of all Americans play video games‚ 40% are women‚ and 60% of all gamers are between the ages of 25 through 44 years old (games-advertising.com)
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Ethical Debates in Video Game Design Like any industry‚ the video game industry certainly has its fair share of ongoing ethical debates regarding the sort of content that designers should be allowed to place in their games. The issues themselves are indeed ethically questionable issues‚ with potentially consequential results. I have chosen four that highlight the importance and nature of some of these debates. One of these debates is about excessive violence in video games‚ and whether it ’s
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something about Super Mario or Pac-Man.These two and some others have started a new trend which called ’playing video games’.Most people have spent their free time with playing video games and it still keeps going in that way.But for years people asking this question.’Do video games are bad or good?’ One of the advantages of playing video games is improving your vocabulary.Most games are online now and you can’t do anything without making a contact with other players.These players are live in
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Video games can vary in type and objective‚ from first-person shooters‚ to sports games or fantasy games. There are games with deep background stories and there are games that have no true plot such as Madden football games. However‚ one thing that isn’t a big theme but can be included in video games is sexuality and relationships. Sexuality has only recently been included in games for various reasons. The first being that dealing with more deep emotional subjects and romantic situations wouldn’t
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