Video game music

has the personality typical of gamers. It can be easily seen why he excels in the public relations field with his easy going personality and is easy to talk to. He was born August 31st and has a wide variety of interests including: art, movies, music, video, literature, Iron Man, guitars, dogs, and most importantly baseball. On top of that Eric is a space fanatic and loves many aspects of space. He also has a wife and a son. In addition he has a love for videogames which led him to his…

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…

“Turn that music down. I thought you were doing your homework!” Perhaps you have heard or said this before. Those who listen to music while they do homework believe music helps them concentrate. This debate has been repeated over and over, but the real question is, does music actually help you concentrate or not? Researchers have divided it into five different categories, neuropathy, synapse, demographic, music, and musical genre. Each category is important in the debate of music and…

Many people feel uncomfortable knowing that things that had long been considered bedroom topics are now commonplace to be seen on televisions, heard in music, or written about online. Many parents dislike this; they worry that it will corrupt their children or they believe that children should not be exposed to these things at the ages they are. Consequentially, the various methods of parental mediation…

There is a new rumor in Hollywood suggesting that Warner Bros. has a few successful female directors in mind who they are considering to helm the reboot of their adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider franchise, originally based on the video game series created by Eidos Interactive. The last film, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, was released in 2003 and starred Angelina Jolie as the title character. The Tracking Board seems to suggest that on this list of directors, the most…

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…

Headshots: Violent video game and the targeting of our children The proliferation of violent subject matter in marketing and entertainment is nothing new. Mass media and its deluge of blood soaked mechanisms have long served as a form of entertainment for consumers in search of a release from their mundane lives. Multi-national corporations plot ways to hype their newest video game to consumers hungry for a more realistic experience. Game studios produce hyper-violent fairytales where humans…

Over the years, there have been constant debates referring to concerns about the evolution of media. These intense concerns continue to climax as technology and its usage further develop. It would be wrong of me to state that, through all the technological progression, I was not affected. In truth, my generation is one of the most tech savvy generations to help influence this empire’s expansion. Now before we get off topic, let me refocus back to how the new media impacted my life. I remember…

that it is one of the first motion pictures to replicate the video game craze on the rise in the 1980s. The main character in Tron is a computer programmer who is zapped into the cyberworld he helped create, forced to duel in gladiatory digital games, and tries to outsmart a corrupt master program. The film Tron works best on strictly an entertainment value, its colorful, has actions, and looks incredibly fun, much like a huge video game played on the inside. For those able to appreciate the…

Video games causing children to be violent has been a controversial topic for many years. Many people have questioned if video games are the reason why children are so aggressive. “The psychological group reports that more than 90% of children in the united states play video games. Among kids between the ages 12 and 17, the number rises to 97%. More important, 85% or more of video games on the market contain some form of violence.” Stated CNN. Even the games that you think are benign have some…