FIFA video game series

The FIFA video game has impacted my life by growing my interest in soccer and connecting me to my friends and family. FIFA grew my interest in soccer by showing me how much fun and impressive soccer can be. It helped connect me to friends and family by making us able to relate through soccer. The FIFA video game has been able to impact me because of its popularity in the world, its game development, and the awards it has won. Without FIFA, my interest in soccer might not be as high, my ability to play soccer might not be as high, and the connection between my friends and family might not be as high. The series of FIFA video games was created by Electronic Arts (EA) Sports. The first FIFA video game was released in 1993 and was called FIFA International Soccer. EA Sports has created many different sports video games. They include Madden NFL (American football), PGA Tour (golf), and NHL (hockey). Madden NFL is the most popular sports video game in the United States with FIFA close behind and gaining popularity very rapidly. FIFA has been passing many videogames in order to be the second most popular in the world including NBA most recently. There were at least nine different soccer videogames before the first FIFA video game that greatly influenced the…

to examine is Ubisoft. Ubisoft is a French video game company which established in 1985, and now becomes one of the biggest video games company around the world. Like some of the other companies, at the first stage, Ubisoft did not have a lot of good games, until, in 2007, they published Assassin’s Creed. This game also started a new age in the game industry, until September 2016, they sold more than one hundred million copies of this game series, and make this game become one of the most…

The computer game industry is getting bigger everyday with people buying new video game consoles everyday all around the world. The video game industry began back in 1971 with the release of arcade games such as Pac-man and Pong. People began to get addicted to arcade games and would spend long periods of time playing them in the arcade. People would spend so long playing arcade games because they were easy and enjoyable to play. The first commercially successful video game was Pong, it sold…

The reason gaming can be a sport is because competitive multiplayer which is a great example why video games should be a sport, there are many different competitors trying to beat each other to win competitions like tournaments or championships. Also because eSports does make it a kind of a sport by allowing different teams to compete against each other for prizes like money. The benefits of having video games as a sport are when competing in multi-player tournaments or championships in video…

Video games can lead to addiction, depression, aggression, and many health issues. In fact, research has been conducted for decades on the negative effects of video game play. So why then have video games become over a $16 billion industry? Well, video games have immense positive potential. In addition to their entertainment value, video games can offer considerable success when they are designed to address a specific problem or teach a specific skill. Video games can be a particularly valuable…

Video games have been very controversial when it comes to human behavior and mental stability. Video games have evolved tremendously since they were first introduced. There are several questions that arise when focusing on human behavior when it comes to video games. Two questions in particular are, “Do video games impact behavior is negative ways? and “Do video games effect human behavior. Several different theories were explored in the journal article “Brains on video games”. Six experts…

It would serve as a way to drastically increase the safety of workers in the workplace. Unimate, for example, took over the task of moving die castings and welding them, a task that was extremely dangerous for workers at the time (Hayward). Today, industrial robots are used in almost every aspect of mass production, which has led to drastically reduced prices in our increasingly consumer-focused society (Mickle). In 1962, America saw the invention of the first video game, known as Spacewar,…

Pros and Cons of Video Games Video games have been around for more than 40 years and have kept advancing with each decade. According to Stastica.com1, as of 2013, the time spent playing a video game is 23.2 minutes per day. That adds up to over 150 hours a week. The video game industry is projected to grow to more than 101.6 billion in revenue in 2014 according to Gartner, Inc.’s (American information technology research and advisory) projections. Have you ever wondered how this could affect…

Growing in popularity over the last few years it is now the most widely played online video game, surpassing such names as World of Warcraft and Starcraft 2. In fact, the world championship game just played over the weekend with the winning 5 man team being awarded one million dollars. Inside of just playing the game there is a large online community based primarily through a thread on the website Reddit. The posting board is made up of information concerning the professional teams who are…

Addiction is very complex. It can be described as a series of damaging activities one does to themselves, that negatively impacts their individual life and the lives of those around them (NIDA 2012). Addiction can be further classified as the repeated action or ingestion of something that alerts one’s mood. Video game addiction is described as an impulse control disorder, similar to pathological gambling (UPH 2016). The concept of Internet addiction as a disorder was initially proposed by Ivan…