Focus in the Video Game Industry The video game industry has gone through six generations of consoles‚ and the seventh is now underway with new consoles from Nintendo‚ Sony‚ and Microsoft. Atari led the first generation of the video game industry. They were able to create the first home video game Pong in 1972‚ and they were the first to develop the interchangeable cartridge and the joystick. The creation of the interchangeable cartridges allowed for third party independent video game developers
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Recognizing problem video game use In “Recognizing problem video game use” Porter‚ GuyStarcevic‚ VladanBerle‚ DavidFenech‚ Pauline. "Recognizing Problem Video Game Use." Australian & New Zealand Journal Of Psychiatry 44.2 (2010): 120-128. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. Web. 30 Sept. 2013‚ the author shows that video games can become an addictive pass time for some gamers‚ while others can spend less time at the controller. The article tries to show how certain types of heavy gamers
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comprised of filming of a scene with audio using a suitable camera that will culminate in the production of a unified single one minute News video. The project also acquired me to design a “storyboard” to break the story into different scenes which will save me time while filming‚ after then use my previous knowledge of multimedia and appropriate image/video editing software such as “Adobe After Effect” and “Photoshop” to perfect my creation for the project. IDEOLOGY I was looking for something
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Video Games And Parents – Why So Much Hate? In a recent survey that was conducted‚ it was discovered that what parents fear the most is not that their children will get addicted to drinking alcohol or watching pornographic videos. Their greatest fear is that their children will get obsessed with playing video games. You may be surprised at first‚ but when you think about it the results actually makes sense. Just take a look at the gaming consoles available today. You have the PlayStation
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Why Video Games have to be treated as Threat? Today‚ thanks to technology‚ people have many different and new ways to entertain themselves. One kind of entertainment that is well-known is video games. They are very popular among boys and girls from the age of 12‚ and to men and women in their 30’s. In a survey released by The American Academy of Child & Adolescent found that “Ninety-seven percent of young respondents play video games. That ’s 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls‚ with little
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STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: The study aims to understand the different cause of computer games addiction and manage their time on study and playing games. Specifically this study seeks to answer this following questions: 1. What are the cause of computer games addiction as perceived by the students? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being addicted to computer games? 3. What are the proposed ways to eradicate computer games addiction? PANPACIFIC
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article “Do Video Games Kill?” author‚ Karen Sternheimer‚ brings up an interesting and controversial subject about video games. “If we want to understand why young people‚ particularly middle class or other stable environments‚ become homicidal‚ we need to look beyond the games they play.” Sternheimer starts her article by giving an example of the video game “Doom” that became a target for critics. Shooting at the schools in Kentucky‚ Oregon‚ and Colorado were most probably caused by video games. The
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For almost a century‚ video games have shaped not just our country‚ but the whole world. An entire industry was developed and it continues to thrive‚ even in our rough economic times. Some people fall into the clutches of games’ $60 (or more) price tags‚ while others wait for titles to drop into the bargain bin. But no matter how you purchase them‚ video games have become much more than just ways to pass the time. They make us laugh. They make us cry. They make us want to scream in anger and punch
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T.J. Watkins Dr. Marohl English 112-4202S June 10‚ 2010 No to Banning Violent Video Games Over the past five decades there has been a discussion over violent media. This has included movies‚ music‚ music videos and television. Since 1990‚ there has been another venue on the chopping block‚ video games. Although video games have been around since the 70’s‚ the ones mainly considered in this argument have only been around for the last ten years. Some of the titles of these games are
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The Danger of Violent Video Games in Children The links between increased aggressive and violent behaviour and the content of video games is a controversial subject. Increased scientific evidence demonstrates that violent video games are linked to increases in aggressive cognitions‚ feelings and behaviours (e.g.‚ Anderson and Bushman‚ 2001; Anderson‚ 2004; Anderson‚ Gentile & Buckley‚ 2007) However‚ there is still much resistance to the evidence among the public and by the video game industry (e.g.
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