Gaming

The Change in Female Video Game Characters When one enters a video game store and looks around at the different covers for the games. Most games one picks up will have a male character on the front and a less prominent woman character in the back(see fig. 1). In fact, most principal video game characters are male. The supporting roles are usually played by female characters if there are any female characters.Image Even some of the first characters like Donkey Kong and Pac-Man although they…

Fortnite battle royale is a crazy popular video game that millions of people play but the truth is that only half of them are good at winning!So if you want to be good at the game you should read this because the tips in here are from great gamers across the world. The first tip that you could use to help you win is your drop place there are tons of drop places to land in fortnite so you might as well pick the best one. Different places are good for different strategies but the strategy most…

Despite her progress and contributions to the community, she has been surprised by the sexism that she has experienced in her field. Even recounting a time, where she organized a gaming event only to be ask if she played the game by a fellow player. When ask how she handles such negative presumptions she stats “its does get tiresome at times” but she gracefully handles these conflicts head on. Despite her setbacks, it is not all doom and gloom, Orlando does see Diversity improving as many…

Gaming is a worldwide phenomenon now that keeps getting bigger and bigger every day on multiple consoles or computers. But now everyone is thinking is it going to be considered a sport. Well in some parts of the country and outside our country it is already considered one. To some people sports are supposed to be physically active and moving around daily during the sport. To others it is just standing still and golfing patiently. But gaming is a special one because you are either sitting in a…

Gaming in Color is a documentary that takes a deep look into queers in gaming. The documentary takes a stand against an issue that game developers are well aware of, yet try to ignore. The content of the movie mostly consists of people who do not necessarily identify as heterosexual and what their take is on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer issues in video games. A lot of those who were interviewed identify as gaymers, a term that refers to people who identify as gay and love videogames. Among…

One of the first studies that looked at the effects of gaming on the dopaminergic pathway was a study by Koepp and colleagues (1998) that took positron emission topography (PET) scans of eight male participants while they were playing a video game. The authors found that there were greater dopamine increases in the ventral striatum (where the NAc is located) in the experimental condition (playing the video game) than in the control condition (looking at an empty screen). Furthermore, while…

Jiacheng Xu MGMT4500 06/03/2017 Section I: factors affecting the development of online gaming: Firm strategy A Strong policy is all the programs and activities that a company has put in place to ensure that they maximize their presence in the market, increase sales while they decrease input so that they have not only high profits but also have good penetration in the new markets (Elias and Dubina, p.84). For the online gaming case, if the firm will put in place strategies for its sale for…

Is The Gaming World Sexist? The Video Gaming Industry is a male driven industry and is sexist. The statistics show that 97% of game developers are male and 3% are female. That is crazy, but yet not at the same time. That is just 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…

invention for many years and more to come. The video game industry is still huge in today’s society and has many people who continue to love them. The gaming community, or better addressed as gamers, devote a significant amount of time to playing video games and many like to play alone or with others online in gaming sessions or a parties. The gaming community is very intriguing to me because I consider myself an avid gamer. This assignment will allow me to take a deeper look into this…

The majority of people would be quick to disagree with internet gaming being considered as gambling. Honestly, I disagreed with this statement when I was first introduced to the topic. Then, I realized that there is more to internet gaming than just simple puzzles, role play games, and others that normally do not involve money. Let’s not forget games such as online bingo, poker, slots, and the online casinos in general. Just because these are online and not in a real casino setting, many people…