Video Games Essay

consumers spent $16.6 billion on video games, according to the Entertainment Software Association” (Dockterman). Video game culture has become mainstream and very influential in modern lifestyles. Video game characters are featured on merchandise and apparel. Games have also been adapted into films and books, such as Resident Evil and Halo. Of the visitors to a fandom convention, almost half are women (Wiseman). But, only around 15% of characters in video games are women (Gittleson). “In 2013…

November 2015 Is Video Games the Blame? Video games have been around since the 1940s, and it began with games that were interactive such as chess and tic tac toe. It wasn 't until the 1970s where games started to become more arcade-like with games from Atari like space invaders. Videos games back then had a different meaning, whether it is to spend time with friends, or maybe to reach a high score in a game, but when did the controversy of video games begin? When are video games to blame for…

Due to the fact that video game addiction has many of the same similarities with other addictions such as preoccupation, withdrawal symptoms, compulsions, and escapism, gamers can easily become fully immersed in the video game world. One study conducted by Jason C. Northrup at St.Mary’s University in Texas, examined the effects of gaming on married couples. Through interviews, surveys, and questionnaires, Northrup was able to analyze the negative social effects of gaming on marital relationships…

Many people have speculated the cause behind school shootings is mainly violent video games. No one ever thinks about other causes. The real problem may be much deeper than that. There are several ingredients that go into the cocktail of violence ,that is so prevalent in our society. When tragedy hits and horrific happenings occur, we scramble for a quick answer and a quick fix. The senseless tragedies that happen are unnecessary. It proves that catastrophes can strike anywhere and anytime. Our…

are many ways to entertain oneself through modern media. All of these mediums have a varying level of interactivity in them and the most interactive can be seen as video games. This interactive study is based on the notion that violence in video games is the cause of violence in the real world due to the interactive nature of video games. I find this topic significant due to many other outlets of media either condemning violence in gamings or using violence in gaming as a scapegoat as the cause…

Stop with the Blame Violence in video games has been a controversial topic from the conception of simple classic video games like Pac-man, Space Invaders, and Super Mario. This debate has pushed into the modern age and games like Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, and Halo dividing consumers and critics alike into two separate sides of the arena. In one corner, you have the critics relating, connecting, and blaming violence in the video games to many unfortunate and tragic events committed by the…

Video games have been criticized for their unequal and unrealistic gender representations for both men and women. Video game creators generally focus only on their male demographic, and ignore their female demographic. This might be in part due to the fact that technology has been seen as being more masculine, and as something that only males are good at. This socially constructed, or human created idea, has in the past and to this day discouraged many women from being more capable with…

A new game is coming out in a week. The game was announced over a year ago with trailers to build excitement for the game. As the launch approaches, more information is released and hype for the game grows. The game comes out and it’s an immediate hit. The only problem is it’s only available on one console, a console they don’t own. Anyone who doesn’t have this console either has to buy the console to play the game or just not buy the game. But what if there was a way that they could buy the…

Violence in Video Games: Does it Cause Real Violence? Violence in video games has been a popular topic of debate for years among the populace, particularly after some terrible events occurred in recent past, such as Columbine, a tragic school shooting for which people put the blame on video games. The people always want something to blame when things go wrong and this just happens to be one of them. People fear that which they do not understand and one of the things for people of past…

being drawn from reality into a violent and inappropriate place for a child to be. These games are not only distancing loving parents from their children; the games may actually be making kids more aggressive. Videogames can lead to violence by putting the player under a mountain of stress, distancing the player from a good source of guidance, and desensitizing the player to violence. To start, video games can be a huge cause of stress in the lives of some people. Stress is proven to be…