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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,…

Strategy GameStop main focus as a company is video games. This has been their focus since the company has started. The video game industry has been big since the 21st century. GameStop has the leading companies in video game retailing. Many consumers go to GameStop to purchase their games today. One of their strategies that the company uses is allowing consumers to download some of the games. In downloading these games the consumers get to have the games without having the disc. This is great…

The game that I played and recorded a game log on was Diablo III. Diablo III is a popular action role-playing video game that was developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment. The highly anticipated video game was first released for PC in 2012 and then rereleased on the major video game consoles in late 2013 and 2014. The lead designer of the game is Jay Wilson and he was assisted by other designers Josh Mosqueira and Leonard Boyarsky. This game exemplifies a lot of different aspects and…

With innovation even in its early stages, the original DOOM video game is one of the most renowned video games of all times for being the first to implement one of if not the most popular video game styles, the first person shooter. This style has become a staple, but not a requirement, in the genre of dystopian science fiction in video games many gamers know and love today.(DOOM, 1993) Franchises that followed in DOOM’s footsteps include the Half Life series, which follows a scientist named…

Scientific Truth Behind Video Games and Real World Violence Have you ever wondered why some stores refuse to sell violent video games to minors? If so, then you’ll be surprised as to why. It isn’t a law, but it is up to the store to decide whether they sell you the game or not. Their reasoning is that some people seem to think that video game violence can cause real world crimes; such as, mass killings. The earliest known game was a single-player, arcade, tic-tac-toe game, developed in the year…

When it comes to game adaptions of books there are bound to be obvious differences caused by adapting from one medium to another. Are these differences significant enough to mean that a game can never be a faithful adaptation of a book? Faithful adaptations being an “attempt to recapture the original text as closely as possible” (Beach). Using the book Parasite Eve by Hideaki Sena and the game of the same name by Square (now known as Square-Enix), it becomes easy to see that games can never be a…

Video Games Video games. You know, the games you like to play on your phone, or on your tablet. Those little games that you find almost no enjoyment playing, but just because you have to wait for the bus for another five minutes you open it up. Wither it is “Angry Birds” or “Trump Dump”, you have most likely played a video game. There are a million topics in the world to write about, but I have chosen to talk about video games. Why? Because I believe that in-between presidential debates and…

from traditional arcade games to personal gaming consoles. The majority of them grew up playing classics such as Pac-man, Atari, Pokémon, and Zelda. To anyone who has referred to themselves as a gamer, a world absent of video games would be unfathomable. Luckily, those die hard gamers out there probably won’t have to say goodbye anytime soon; as of 2015 the American video gaming industry has generated 13.13 billion dollars in sales. However, the future of the video game industry relies on its…

including video games. As a rising phenomenon since the 1980s, video games have enchanted an amalgam of people worldwide. It’s main audience in the past were young children. There were many elements in these games that kept their eyes glued to the screen. One of these factors was the ideal role model, which is prevalent in games. Many games, especially the older ones, contained over muscular men usually acting violently such as Rambo for example. However, as these children started to grow up,…

“ The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.” These words are from Shigeru Miyamoto, the man who created many popular icons in the gaming world. This man has been referred to as “ the father of modern video games ,” but he doesn’t receive a higher salary than any other employees at Nintendo on his own accord . Despite growing up about two decades before video games existed, Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most well known people in the…