Casual gamer

"Should Gamers Be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing" -author Alex Weiss argues against the decision of the Dutch Supreme Court to rule in favor of a 13-year-old victim of virtual theft. Playing virtual reality games requires investing time and occasionally money to achieve a goal. With the loss of a shield and amulet, it was enough for the boy to seek legal action. When taking into account the time the 13-year-old spent to get the items, the court's decision to rule in his favor was not…

businesses, which is videogames and especially Call of Duty. Call of Duty of one of the most played First Person Shooters in the gaming industry. The most impressive, being the growth of the new community. Along with Call of Duty, a new generation of gamers have come, from the squeaker to the try hard and everything that could be in the middle. The squeaker During the last Call of Duty games, it looks as though kids think it is fun to shriek into their microphone with voices much higher than a…

The first and most noticeable were losses in academic performance by gamers that are currently in school. These effects are simply caused by the opportunity cost of spending time engrossed in games versus the individual’s studies. There are also more notable negative effects from anti-social (violent) styled video games…

mind blowing crazy when thinking about the percentage. Smith (talking about myself in the third person is a bit weird) plays online video games quite a lot, and online hears a lot of people being very sexist on online games. For one example a “girl gamer” as the Xbox community on Call of Duty call them, whenever she said something in the lobby everyone flipped out and started screaming. This isn’t a joke, it was like answering the phone not knowing who was on the other side, saying hello, and…

teenagers in America and several other countries. Video game genres can vary from the casual puzzle/ problem solver variety to a fast paced first-person shooter types. Like many other forms of entertainment media, video gaming has received a great deal of scrutiny. The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), the entity that rates video games (e.g., C, E, T, M and A), claims that in 2010 the average gamer spent an astonishing 8 hours a day playing video games. (ESRB, 2010) Violent games…

Since its release in 2004, the Nintendo DS has sold 154.01 million units. Among the different iterations of the Nintendo DS, like the Nintendo 3DS, 3DS XL and Nintendo 2DS, the Nintendo DS is currently the best selling handheld console, and the second best selling video game console of all time. Yet despite its high sales figures, ten years after the release of the Nintendo DS to the wider mainstream market, little research has been done about the effects of the Nintendo DS’s technology on the…

Many people love to play games for their own reasons. It may be for fun, past time, or whatever their reason may be. Some players or gamers are considered as hardcore gamers. Hardcore gamers consider games as their life. Some teenagers have the tendencies to be hardcore gamers because of the influence of others or because games can make them happy. People seek pleasure and happiness that is why most teenagers become more vulnerable to vices like online…

This can be seen when women are not allowed to join certain guilds or groups because they are automatically assumed to be casual players because of their gender. In World of Warcraft, it is assumed that women will always fall under certain stereotypes, these ranging from playing classes that focus on healing, something like a nurse, to only engaging in pet minigames. There…

The video game industry has always been known as a male-dominated industry, with most video games being marketed towards males and many video game programmers being male. But in recent years, there has been a rise in the number of female gamers in the industry. Although there are a lot of women interested in video games, there are still a lot of problems regarding sexism and the video game industry. Sexism can be found in the video games that girls play as they grow up to women who enter the…

I started out as a console gamer at age 10; my first console being the Nintendo DS. For the next 4 years of my life I remained a console gamer until high school. During my high school days, my closest friends always talked about a game called “League of Legends.” At first I wasn’t interested in the game at all. However, I wanted to fit…