Video game addiction

Video Games constitute a new phenomenon in modern society. With the advance of technology and graphic display, the content of video games has become more aggressive and disturbing. For the past few decades, since video games were first created, the gaming industry has been developing games that would surpass other games before it. Video games have incredibly changed over time. Before, graphic systems limited many features. Violence was not realistic and blood was not red. Nowadays with the…

Video games and other interactions with technology can have both beneficial and detrimental effects on the lives of their users. The question now is, are video games really as bad as some our society some claim, or do they have good benefits for society. To these questions my answer is yes and yes. As mentioned above some video games have many beneficial health benefits. As such, we can, and in some cases should use them. The ways in which games can relieve symptoms from accidents, assist…

In 2014 there was a popular game named “Flappy Birds” this was created by “Dong Ngugen”. This game entails 50,000 per day however this game was taken down due to addiction. Dong Nguyen said “I can’t take it anymore my life is not as comfortable as before and I am loosing my sleep over this game”. Not only did this affect him but others also due to addiction so many serious incidents occurred. Resulting from this game a 17 years old boy stabbed his brother 17 times in the chest because he had a…

Game , online and offline, has become a national pastime and hobby for many. With the adoption of console gaming, the trend has gone from the desktop computer, to the big screen television in your living room. With the introduction of console gaming, the age group of gamers has gone from adulthood to elementary aged kids. Several effects have come about since the dawn of gaming and have gone even further, since console gaming began its trend. Some effects are good, but with every good effect,…

road(Ritchell). Scientists believe checking social media every opportunity you get has a nasty side effect. Many people are giving up downtime to let their brains relax. Phones can easily make little windows of free time entertaining, whether it be playing a video game or checking social media. We need to be able to not worry about our phones as much and just live…

A toddler lacks proper social skills. A child screams and fusses uncontrollably until handed his mother’s IPhone. A teen gets hit by a car walking through a street texting. Two boys obsessed with a video game kill 12 students in a high school shooting. These are not the only cases; many of today’s tragic events derive from a lack of social understanding of others, which is learned at a young age. Our childhoods are a critical time and serve as the foundation for the rest of our lives. Recent…

Case study 1 Apocalypse and the influence of 9/11 on the apocalyptic movies Apocalypses have always been in people their heads, the thought of the end of the world has been and still is really popular in the film industry. Bendle says “Apocalypses are one of the oldest narrative forms, and they have informed some of the most imaginative and terrifying imagery in cultural history” (Bendle, 2005). In the years before 9/11 the apocalypse movies, books and magazines have been a great and widely…

A number of studies on technological addiction are seen when the literature is analyzed. In a two-year longitudinal study of 3,034 third through eighth grade students in Singapore found approximately nine percent of gamers to be pathological players according to standards similar to those established by the American Psychiatric Association for diagnosing gambling addiction. Also, in a study conducted by Gentile indicated that video games were played by 8.5% of individuals surveyed aged…

educational math or reading games. That scenario sounds great, but is not something you hear of a child doing on a regular basis which is why that will never happen. Some may argue that the parents should monitor if the child is actually using it for learning purposes, while others may say the child should be able to play whatever games they want since the schools make them use the computers for educational purposes only. Honestly, no matter how many learning programs and games are made children…

When mentioning video games, we often think of kids or teenagers playing on a console and TV set. However, today’s gaming is mostly targeting young college students as their main audiences. A recent phenomenon that happened at the time summer in 2016 was the “Pokemon GO craze”. As dubbed, the release of the mobile game, Pokemon Go, gains worldwide popularity. For those who do not know what Pokemon GO is, it is a mobile game based on the popular and ongoing animation show…