Gaming

Media has always been a part of the world ever since words were carved on stone. From delivering mail by horseback, to Samuel Morse inventing the telegraph, to today where everyone can communicate with almost anyone, anywhere, anytime around the world. Though today there are various social platforms; Twitch is growing to be one of the biggest media sites today. Twitch started when the co-founder of Twitch, Justin Kan, first began streaming his life on his first website justin.tv in 2011. Kan…

perfecting the poker face, you should be confident to kick some poker butt. At Isle Casino Hotel Black Hawk, we have non-sop table gaming action both day and night. Of our 24 hot tables, Three Card Poker is always a crowd favorite. But we’ve also got Blackjack, Bonus 6, Texas Hold’em Bonus, Craps, Roulette, Buffalo Blackjack, Double Deck Blackjack and 21 + 3. Your options of gaming fun are…

Video Game Violence and Desensitization In 2006, Carnagey, Anderson and Bushman have conducted research regarding the cognitive effects of violence in video games. Their research question was stated as the following: “Does exposure to violent video games decrease physiological responsiveness to real-life violence?” Accordingly, the hypothesis was defined similarly: “Violent game players would show less physiological arousal, desensitization, in response to real-life violence than would…

When I first finished high school, I thought I was finished with English. English was not one of my strongest subjects or well, I thought it was not. Being able to get away with procrastination, I felt like I did not need to worry much about it. I was wrong to do so, and English 104 open my eyes to how much work I really need. Leaving everything to the last minute limited a lot of things, for example the revision of each piece, I did not get that done until maybe Thanksgiving break. I became so…

couch in the dark and dingy basement with a headset in your ear and a controller in your hands determined to beat your high score. As a child, I never had any sort of video gaming system. My parents never invested in the activity and I never felt the desire to have video games, until I was about 12. I received my first gaming system, which was a Nintendo GameCube. I had two games…

advantage of feeling and interpreted them into their art work to catch the viewers attention. Arts have made art pieces that create sadness, happiness, excitement, tension and many more. Cory Arcangel, a thirty-seven-year-old that brought nerd’s love of gaming into galleries. He is overthrowing traditional art work with pop-futuristic approach. He replaces oil paint with Photoshop, Mario Bros.’s background over pastoral realism, and digital screens over canvases. His 2002 work, Super Mario Bros…

Compared to others, Harrah’s Entertainment Marketing Information System efforts works so well because it combines its service culture with the brain center of Total Rewards. Harrah’s has important tools to analyze the MIS. After a day of gaming at Harrah’s, the company knows which customers should be rewarded for accumulating points and redeeming them for a wide variety of rewards like IPads and TV’s. Harrah’s combines its service culture with the brain center of the Total Rewards to gather…

In today’s professional world we are governed by laws and a code of ethics. Communication plays a big role in our daily conduct to follow the rules that are written and the code of ethics that are unwritten. We have all had an instance that we can describe how something that we were requested to do in the workplace was not illegal but may have gone against our personal code of ethics. Our ability to communicate efficiently and professionally helps us conduct business effectively with our peers.…

Game Plan • Problem There are many problems people assume are caused from video games. In addition multiple studies over several topics have been researched due to these assumptions. Three problems I found commonly in question were increased physical fighting, bullying, and shootings. Physical fights happen although many of us wish they didn’t. Children and adults all ages play video games. Most of the video games that have a violent rating contain increased physical fighting. Sometimes while…

Violent Video Games Several years ago the technology and child’s play were not such as extremely developed as today. Thousands of teenagers have video games as their primary form of entertainment at home and the disagreement about this topic is because they focus in a several subjects such as violence scenes, sex, hostile, racism and other resource. For many years, researchers have been debating if video games can cause dependence or nor. However, an expert such as Jack Flanagan believes video…