Xbox One vs. PS4 I love the Xbox One (“Xbox”) when compared to the PlayStation 4 (“PS”)because the Playstation seems a little confusing. The two consoles are both good but they don’t have things that the other console does. One thing that is kind of a big deal is that the Xbox has a whole game series called Halo. The Playstation has a game that the Xbox does not have as well but the game isn’t as well know. This game is Uncharted and it’s a series as well. Both the PS and Xbox have downloadable…
I was recently introduced to an extraordinary game, Guitar Hero for PS2. My friends and I each pitched in to buy it for eighty dollars at a local gaming outfit. Since then, there has been nothing but laughter, shouting, and squealing rock & roll emitting from their house. Guitar Hero comes in a package deal; it includes the PS2 game, a plastic guitar controller with strap, and a few stickers for accessorizing the guitar. Other guitar skins can be bought, and even personalized, on Ebay.com. The…
The twelfth and thirteenth episodes of South Park’s tenth season, “Go God Go” and “Go God Go XII”, work as pieces of comedy because they effectively use humorous triangular formats. Both episodes satirize fanaticism, especially in regards to religion and atheism. The majority of the humor in these episodes, as well as other South Park episodes, results from a triangular relationship. The three parties involved in this relationship are the audience, the show’s writers and creators, and the…
OVERVIEW OF Xbox: Along with the invention of visual media, giant players of the industry started to realize the potential of video gaming market. The first generation video games released in the 1960s and later several new generations of gaming consoles came back-to-back with advanced features. World-famous Washington based software-giant Microsoft created an all-new video gaming brand 'Xbox' in 2001 as its first step to conquering the gaming market. Since the release, it went through a tough…
The novel, Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline, relates to current advancements being made in virtual reality gaming. The story is centered aorund Wade Watts, an adolescent in the year 2044, and his passion for playing the virtual reality video game, created by James Halliday, known as the OASIS. In the text Cline writes, “I’d heard of Halliday, of course. Everyone had. He was the videogame designer responsible for creating the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online game that gradually evolved into…
Microsoft has recently released their newest controller for their Xbox One console, the Xbox One Elite controller. Critics and reviewers across the web have already gave their take on this new controller and many have said that this is one of the best controllers ever. This controller better be worth it with its reported price of $150 which is absolutely asinine. WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING Critics have pointed out that the biggest change from the original Xbox One controller to the Xbox One…
If you want an exercising game to have fun while you run any where, download on a mobile device, the app Pokemon Go. The objective of the game is to catch all types of monsters called Pokemon. Some Pokemon are easy to catch while some are hard. There are ways to help you on your very fun adventure. The game is also never ending so you will have fun whenever you want. In the future there will be more Pokemon but in the late 2016 there were about 151 Pokemon. You will learn how to catch Pokemon,…
Steve Russell Space War By Sanjay Javvadi University of Mary Hardin-Baylor ESOL-13 Dr.Clardy ABSTRACT My research topic is Steve Russell Space War. In the 1950s, researchers would every so often develop a video game as an exhibit, an exploration help, or a preparation exercise, yet these…
I’ve been researching the topic of Call of Duty and its video game franchise. I believe it is the best first person shooter video game franchise. One of the games they produced was the fastest selling game in history. It was called Modern Warfare. It was made in 2007 developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision. There were 2 more games made in these series; Modern Warfare 2, Modern Warfare 3. These games were also big hits in the Call of Duty Franchise. These are just some games that…
The mouse trap car called “Tadashi” was a work in progress because of the mistakes made along the way. But in the end it finally worked out to be a total success, and it got the ten points it deserved. In the beginning it seemed like a really weird design that might not make it to the end. Yet when it was put together it started to seem much more promising than expected. Of course it wasn’t the best car out there, but it made it to the goal line and that’s what really mattered. Beginning with,…