Glick Topic: Video games in America Specific Purpose: To inform my COM121 class on how video games are part of peoples lives. Central Idea: Focusing on how games are incorperated in peoples lives by viewing the time spent playing‚ relationships through video games‚ how video games are for all people‚ and the social aspect that is incorperated in the video games. Introduction Attention-getter: 59% of americans play video games‚ there are two gamers in each household in
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2014 Video Games Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about video games. Thesis: Video games have changed throughout the years and now has become a major part in our society. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: Video games are used by everyone scientist‚ military‚ and of course the casual players. B. Credibility Statement: 1. Video games play a major role in my life‚ I don’t remember a day without playing at least one hour a day. 2. I spend at least a third of my day playing video games
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world of video games. Ever since then technology has grown incredibly now making a fun hobby out of it that people can really enjoy. I myself have made it a hobby and try to keep up with all the latest devolvement’s in the gaming world. Some of my fondest memories are from when I was about 4 years old and I would wake up and go play Mario with my grandpa on my old Nintendo 64. Today I’m going to explain the past of video gaming‚ where we are today and what is to come of the video games in the future
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IT in the Video Game Industry Emanuel Ultreras BUS 381 Instructor: P. Witman October 20 2011 Fall 2011 Video Games were once a simple simulation of pong using two lines and a dot for imaging. They were played and mastered by a minority group of individuals most commonly referred to as “nerds”. Since those days in 1975 the video game industry market has gone through an exponential growth. With the revolutionary changes in technology and the social changes in product demand the
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Public Speaking 205 03/23/2012 Video game addiction Specific Purpose: As a result of my speech my audience will understand that video games aren’t as bad a hobby as they may think. Central Idea: Playing a video game an excessive amount of time can ruin your social life. Cause you to lose friends and potentially a job. Introduction: I. You and your friends decide to go biking it’s a beautiful day‚ nice and sunny. Everyone arrives and you are ready to go biking but then you look and notice
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it’s playing video games that many claim to be “too violent” * Within the span of a couple of decades‚ video games have evolved from simple pixels moving across a screen to virtually lifelike images and simulation * Video games have quickly become one of the most influential and profitable sources of entertainment worldwide. * If you look at many children and young adults today‚ you can see that almost all their leisure time falls within time spent playing video games or watching
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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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Introduction The video game industry is very broad in scope and continuously growing at a rapid pace (Exhibit 1) with billions of dollars to be made. Although the large potential for growth cushions rivalry amongst the existing competitors in this industry‚ video game companies constantly focus on differentiating their products and seize new opportunities to gain and secure their customers loyalty in order to continue in the business. Most of these new opportunities are created through advancements
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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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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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