Video game industry

Most people believe that exposure to violent media has negative effects on children but there are also those who believe that it can be beneficial to some as well. Amanda Hermes, a freelance writer- mainly about children’s health, green living, healthy eating, states in her essay, “Children’s Exposure to TV Violence & Aggressive Behavior” that watching violence and aggression can lead to acting violent and aggressive. In contrast, Gerard Jones, in his essay “Violent Media is Good for Kids”…

for the first time. Many saw the move as minor sacrilege, whilst others were more optimistic about the concept of playing more convenient, pick-up-and-play Zelda and Mario games on the tube. What nobody seemed to be doing, however, was thinking about the more exciting possibility; that if Nintendo were willing to develop games for smartphones, they might also be looking at producing a mobile phone/gaming device of their very own! Enter artist Pierre Cerveau and the “Smart Boy.” Pierre Cerveau…

best "Zelda" games. This collection includes two games for the Nintendo Entertainment System and two games from the Nintendo 64. Each game is a faithful reproduction of the original game. The stories, enemies, and item placements are as you remember them. However, each game has received a minor facelift. While the graphics remain the same, each game now runs at a higher resolution. This higher resolution lets you see more detail than is possible on the original system. All four games are…

Hormonal Responses in Relation to Video Gaming: League of Legends The hypotheses will be 1) testosterone will increase the most before and after the League of Legends match; 2) DHEA/cortisol will increase during the League of Legends match; 3) the winners and losers effect will influence each subsequent match; 4) team matches will influence higher cortisol responses than single player matches. According to studies, competition stimulates an individual’s hormonal responses (Carre 2009, 2013,…

essay “Just One More Game”, the first game and console ever made that was portable. They are Tetris and the Game Boy; they sparked a revolution for gaming and started a tradition that Anderson call’s “Stupid Games”. In the past 30 plus years, stupid games have been made but did not really pick up until the past five years. In the past five years, stupid games that has been made are Angry Birds, Farmville, Bejeweled, and Fruit Ninja. These game and Tetris are considered stupid game due to the…

Young kids are exposed daily to media and false advertising. The evolution of technology has grown massively in the last couple years. Kids are now being thrown tablets and smartphones just to keep quiet by their parents however, most parents do not childproof or security lock what the child might discover through ads or anything vulgar on the Internet. The question is, “is it our children or our teens who are being impacted more?” Because of the increase in building technology has been so…

alone, they had sold about 19.9 million units, which was just a little more than the Game Cube (made by Nintendo). However, at this time Sony had control of the market, selling approximately 190 million consoles between both the Play Station and the Play Station 2. Much of this can be attributed to the fact that Sony had released the PS2 approximately 12 months prior to the Xbox and had many of the most popular games available to consumers. At the time the Xbox was released, Microsoft planned to…

How much time do you spend on your phone each day? Or even just looking at a screen of some sort? Even if it’s at work every corner you turn there is some sort of electronic being used. Today in society all we see are screens. People in society today don’t even know how to have a civil and professional conversation with each other. For example there are many people who have written about this topic such as Matthew Lynch, and Sarah Brian, and also from other personal experiences that have to due…

violent video games and real-life teenagers’ behavior with all that it infers. In times of new computer technologies more realistic and violent games made, it increases attention from the community and media and number of debates around the effect of violent games. Since the Columbine School shooting in 1999, the connection among violent video games and effects on people, especially in teenagers, became a very much controversial topic. Many denied negative effects of violent video games and…

The unexplored side violent video games are too shy to show I invited three notable authors of research on the effects of violent videogames on children’s development to a conversation over coffee at Square One cafe. Unfortunately, one of these authors, Dr. Deyreh, was unable to join us physically due to the recent immigration ban on Iran. So, he’ll be joining us via skype. The other two authors, Dr. Ferguson and Dr. Agina made it although the latter was late. While waiting for Dr. Agina, I…