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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Industry background The video game industry (formally referred to as interactive entertainment) is the economic sector involved with the development‚ marketing and sale of video and computer games. It includes video game consoles‚ game software‚ handheld devices‚ mobile games and online games. The video gaming industry has been growing exponentially in recent years. The growth is expected to leap-frog in the future. Following chart shows the projected market share by 2010 of different segment
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Violent Video Games Violate Vibes? Video games have recently become a controversial topic‚ in regards to understanding if violent video games can cause aggression and violent behavior. Hundreds of studies‚ as to violent video games‚ have been tested on children‚ bullies and even criminals to find out if there is a connection between violent video games and bad behavior. Although most people believe that violent video games do cause aggression in behavior‚ because of such events like murders‚ criminal
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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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Video games have been rising in popularity and today has become a very profitable industry‚ beginning with the 1980s‚ from arcade classics like Asteroids‚ pinball‚ and Pac-Man to the postmodern console and computer gaming. (Sherman 243) With the rise of video games came the perpetuation of a gender disparity as a result of the emerged gaming culture and from the video games themselves. (Sherman 245) This gender disparity is evident from looking at the female gamers‚ who often experience sexism from
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------------------------------------------------- Table of contents 1. THE BRAND ITSELF 3 1.1 Brand elements 3 1.2 A brand is more than a product 3 1.3 Why do brands matter ? 4 1.3.1 To consumers and manufactures 4 1.4 How are brands positioned ? 4 1.4.1 Segmentation 4 1.4.1.1 Nintendo Wii 5 1.4.1.2 Nintedo DS and 3DS 5 1.4.2 Positioning 4 1.4.2.1 Nintendo Wii 5 1.4.2.2 Nintedo DS and 3DS 5 2. BRAND EQUITY 8 2.1. What is a strong brand ? 8 2.1.1 Brand Awareness
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active activities. The purpose of the following essay is to look at two articles that pertain first to the causes of obesity‚ and second pertain to treatment. Both articles deal with the causal links between other diseases and obesity. When it comes to article #2‚ since it deals with treatment‚ and not etiology‚ that article is more linked to OT issues than the first article that addresses causes. The first article is called “Sugary drinks in the pathogenesis of obesity and cardiovascular diseases”
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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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Is School Bad for Children? Education has always been an intense topic of discussion among many cultures and different groups of people. For many years it was believed that without formal structured education‚ academic success couldn’t be achieved. Today that idea has been challenged and proved invalid by homeschooling‚ online classes and alternative learning of all sorts. In the article‚”School is Bad for Children‚” American author and educator John Holt talks about the failures and flaws
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intrigued the most in is the one of the video games. Video games have always interested me‚ ever since I was a young lad. I began playing video games when I was at the age of 4; it began with the Nintendo Entertainment System‚ one of my personal favorites. Next after a span of a few years my family purchased me and my brother the PlayStation One‚ which was an innovation of its time. The PlayStation Two came a few years later with better selection of games and improved graphics‚ very very fun in my
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