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...?Video Games The advent of video games has changed the face of the games played by today’s youngsters. Not only young people even adults are fascinated by this world of games, including console related games as well as online games. These games are becoming a huge craze among the people who want to escape from the monotony of a routine life. Importantly, these video games nowadays are used in many constructive and beneficial ways. There were constant criticisms leveled against these video games as they accused of...
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...The Impact of Video Games on Children and Adults Many studies have shown playing violent video games such as Manhunt, Thrill Kill, or Grand Theft Auto can increase a person’s level of aggressive thoughts and behavior in both a clinical setting and at home. In addition, playing violent video games is possibly more harmful than watching violent television shows or movies because these games are particularly interactive, engrossing and require the player to relate in a more personal way with the violent characters of the game. Infamous events have created widespread debates regarding the negative...
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...its research and development program. It was also hard to take the risk of releasing new products without the financial muscle to back it up.
Relative to its competitors, Massive lacks the capability of customizing it product offerings like what is being offered by Double Fusion. As opposed to IGA Worldwide, Massive's products are only applicable on a single platform.
Opportunities. With the increase of the popularity of video games in all demographic segments, Massive is assured of a larger market for its product offerings. The rapid technological advancement and innovation further helps the company in coming up with new services. Meanwhile, its being a Microsoft subsidiary promises a brighter future...
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...Does Video Game Violence Cause Real Violence? The video game industry has been plagued with accusation that violent video games cause children and adults to commit violent acts. Beyond the censorship debate, the question becomes does video game violence cause real violence? If it does, what age group is most susceptible? Many references and resources are available on this topic. However this paper chooses to focus on several incidents of violence blamed on video games. This is to focus on the individuality of the crimes committed, instead of reducing them to...
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...showed a strong connection between high gaming and a propensity for depression, internet addiction, and unhealthy weight gain especially among adults (Sifferlin, 2013; OCallaghan, 2009). Women that regularly played video games were found to be prone to depression while men who played them for long hours were likely to develop elevated BMIs (Doheny, 2011). The negative effects on children are also significant, for one, the game basically encourages the players to disregard rules and even rewards them based on how much they deviate from convectional rules. In addition, although the game cannot be considered a violent game per se, some of...
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...Video Games and Development of Morality Video games are the latest in the list of art forms which are accused of corrupting morality. The popular media is busy debating the intoxicating effects of video games, and though the nature of video games changes considerably over the years, the nature of allegations has not changed much. This work aims to identify whether it is possible to effectively utilize video games in developing morality instead of destroying the same. The main allegation against video games is that they make children lose...
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...Video Games Video Games Video games assist individuals in developing their visual attention (Green, 2003). All individuals come across various visual stimuli at one point in time and they have to select the important stimuli and ignore others. While playing shooting based video games, individuals come across various visual stimuli but they have to identify the important ones which is their enemy or the target in order to successfully kill the target. This characteristic of fast paced shooting video games help in enhancing their visual attention.
Video games even assist in enhancing the creativity of the users and even help in identifying how people react to certain behaviors and actions. Video games such as dress up games allow... ...
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...Video Games Affect Behavior of Participants The rapid technological advancements fronted by the invention of the internet and computers in the 21st century has completely altered and extensively revolutionized child play thereby signaling a significant paradigm shift from the conventional physical pastime activities to the highly addictive video gaming in the cyber space. Video games are electronic games that entail human interaction with a user interface, which generates visual feedback on video devices; personal computers and video game consoles used to be the most...
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...Role of the Media in Video Game Coverage The question of whether video games are good or bad has faced much controversy around the media since the games were invented about 35 years ago. Whereas some people claim that video games are a good source of entertainment, others maintain that these games have negative implications for the wellbeing of individuals (Steinberg 1). The coverage of video games has shaped the public debate both positively and negatively. Taking a look at recent statistics, it is clear that close to 65% of Americans play video...
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...Full Pros and Cons of Videogames and a Comparison of Past and Current Releases The popularity of videogames nowadays is attracting several researchers, psychologists and other experts to the study of its effects on social and psychological behaviors of gamers. The growing incidents of juvenile gun shooters caused immediate responses from people pointing their fingers at videogames as the culprit to such extreme aggressive behavior. Some psychologists caused alarm among concerned parents pointing out that violence in video games influence children’s behaviors and should therefore prevent them from engaging with such media. Nevertheless, the abundance of videogames and the challenging lifestyles of modern...
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