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Arved Garcia English 1101 October 4, 2016 Violent Videogames linked with Child Aggression Videogames have been around for exactly 54 years and have had an immense impact on society. From the first game ever created, “Spacewar”, to the more complex videogames that involve the concept of virtual reality; videogames consume a large amount of time. Some researchers’ belief that the content in the videogame affects and shapes how we behave and act around people. An initial attempt at proving that…

Video games have been becoming bigger and bigger throughout the years. With this increasing popularity, budgets for video games are being raised higher and higher to meet the demands of an amazing game. Now only the top dogs of the business, like Rockstar, Naughty Dog, or Kojima Productions can even afford to make a successful video game. It is a hard and long journey, but someone can get there through perseverance. In this essay i will talk about my way of getting to the point where i can make…

Nintendo's Super Nintendo Entertainment System console and Sega's Genesis/Mega Drive console, showing the viewpoint of various Nintendo and Sega employees, along with others involved in the game industry at the time. The book contains a lot of technical information and showed very clearly how the technology used in video games changed during the period, mainly graphical and artificial technology related. In particular, chapter two 'R & D' and especially chapter 5, 'The History of NOA' were very…

The year 2008, my name Wesley C. Coffey, my video game of choice S.L.A.I (Steel Lancer Area International) a little known, highly underrated sequel to Phantom Crash and this was the night my life would change. Like most fourteen year olds' who could stay up as late as they pleased and didn’t have access to the wonders of the world wide web, I was channel surfing for, how do I put this without sounding obscene, ‘porn’ when I came across a show by the name of X-Play, which didn’t have any smut but…

video games were created to make a relaxing escape from reality and stress. While evident from the gaming trend of violent and realistic shooting and fighting themed games from more modern times, the gaming industry has obviously strayed from its roots of relaxation and stress relief, but there is no denying gaming success. Over the years, video games have evolved tremendously. Modern video games are much more real to life, but people are worried about the effects of realistic and violent games…

INTRODUCTION As we take a look on today’s generation, most of the children’s after school programs is to play, and play various types of video games, one of them are Role Playing Games or commonly known as RPGs. Many studies says that RPG is one of the most addictive type of game. According to Johansen (2008) “Although the modern tabletop role playing game (RPG) movement began in 1974 when TSR published the first commercial RPG Dungeons and Dragons, it has been only less around ten years since…

Starting Video games have been around for quite a while. Video games have been around since the early 1970s. According to the article, How video game systems work, the first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space by Nutting Associates, was introduced in 1971. Although video games date way back, the Atari introduced Pong to the arcades. Nolan Bushnell founded Atari Inc. Nolan is described as the father of the videogame industry. The game pong first introduced by Nolan’s company Atari,…

classical music. However, what many do not realize is that there is a large range of mediums through which one can present music. Some of these methods include writing music to accompany a visual or interactive component such as television or video games. Despite the number of opportunities for original music, the art of writing music to picture is a arduous craft in itself. The challenges can sway composers from entering the field, but the rewards are enough to justify the extended work days…

The first xbox games I played were so amazing. I was like 9 at the time. I was at my friend Dylan's house. He put in this game called Halo Reach. I was so amazed. I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Because at the time I had a Playstation 2. Don't get me wrong, the Playstation 2 was great. But the xbox graphics and games were so new. And it also helped that the xbox didn't crash or overheat when we wanted to play it. And the games were so fun! Like I said I just got introduced to halo that…

Nick Bridwell Professor Karen Dwyer English 102 3 October 2014 Skyrim: To Play or Not To Play The video game industry has been one of the fastest growing industries in the last 20 years. Games have evolved into their own genres and there are thousands to choose from in each genre. Role-playing-games or RPGs are a category that lets the player live vicariously through the character in the game. One company famous for its RPG series, The Elder Scrolls, is Bethesda Softworks. The latest…