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Battlefield 1 is a video game created by professional game developers from Dice and EA. This game was released on October 21, 2016 as a first-person shooting game from the battlefields of world war one. Battlefield 1 not only showed the world what the great war was really like, but it taught kids history and experiences of the soldiers who fought in it. Structure Dice and EA produce games after they got feedback from the gaming community. Gamers usually fond of historic events wanted…

On October 31st of this year, at the Mercedes Benz Arena in Berlin, two teams will be competing against one another as a horde of at least seventeen thousand spectators rally from across the globe to support their respective teams. What could they be going to see you ask? Only what can be arguably seen as the largest e-sport event of the year, the League of Legends World Championship finals. E-sports have finally come to a point where they’re not something to be taken lightly or scoffed at the…

Parents want to know if video games are bad for their kids, but the evidence just makes them confused. Psychologist Jay Hull from Dartmouth College says, “Most of popular media puts the most emphasis of concern on aggression, but aggression is just the tip of the iceberg.” Hull says that other negative behaviors could include binge drinking, smoking cigarettes, and unprotected sex. His study, published Monday in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, shows that teens that regularly…

Esports can be defined as competitive gaming, most common types of Esports are FPS (first person shooter) based games or MOBA’s (multiplayers online battle arena). However all of these games have the same purpose and that is games where “athletes” play as a virtual character in a virtual world and attempt to fight their way to victory. When I looked…

First-person shooter games are only one example of violence in the mass media and largely affect young adult males. Research has found an overwhelming connection between violent video and computer games and short term aggression levels in young men. John McGrath, a writer…

School shooting on December 14, 2012, perpetrated by Adam Lanza, investigator Michael Mudry was assigned to figure out the reason why Lanza committed such a heinous crime. Upon inspecting Lanza’s house, Mudry found a multitude of violent first-person shooter and fighting video games, such as Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty. These games allowed Lanza to simulate real-life murder prior to his shootings on December 14. There was much speculation in the media that it was from playing such violent…

With innovation even in its early stages, the original DOOM video game is one of the most renowned video games of all times for being the first to implement one of if not the most popular video game styles, the first person shooter. This style has become a staple, but not a requirement, in the genre of dystopian science fiction in video games many gamers know and love today.(DOOM, 1993) Franchises that followed in DOOM’s footsteps include the Half Life series, which follows a scientist named…

already vast game library grows, many parents are left pondering what games their children should play, and if simulated violence is healthy for the growing minds of their children. And after the most recent case of Adam Lanza the Sandy Hook school shooter, who was known to play violent video games before the incident, now more than ever are people looking for answers as to the effects simulated violence has on the brain of not just children, but all ages, as Lanza was a twenty-year-old adult…

Infantry Division. The titular Big Red One. Largely a sequel to Call of Duty: Finest Hour, while Big Red One could never possibly compete with Call of Duty 2, the game was better received than Finest Hour, providing a cinematic and perfectly serviceable shooter. Treyarch's work certainly didn't go unnoticed, as they would go on to become a key part of the Call of Duty…

There has never been a more influential series than Gears of War. Not only was the Gears of war 2 my first Xbox games but it was also one of the first games I got emotionally attached to. It has a good story line and follows the idea of brotherhood (or sisterhood). The games fetchers a lot of lost friends and family where there able to move past it and this is why I modeled the way I deal with grief and other things after the game’s. gears of war was not as sad but it did introduce all the…