Nicolas Eymerich's The Inquisitor

Video games are an ever-growing franchise that is constantly undergoing change. Ever since the dawn of video games, new consoles, games, developers, and teams have come together, fallen apart, triumphed, and failed. What is it that has allowed some to thrive where others failed? Several different factors have changed and influenced the world of gaming, including the history that is continuously being written, the people who have built the games behind the scenes, and, of course, the actual video games themselves. Numerous video games have been more successful than others, but identifying what components set the successful apart from the unsuccessful is something definitely worth observing.

To achieve a distinction, I will be exploring the future of the gaming industry on each of the various platforms.

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning "A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln," at the Chicago Historical Society. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. His latest book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.

The Inquisitor’s Tale is about three children, Jeanne, Jacob, William, and their dog, Gwenforte. These children are capable of performing extraordinary miracles, along with their saint dog. Jeanne is a peasant girl that has seizures, or fits, that allow her to see the future. She was accused of performing witchcraft, and was taken from her family to be killed. Jacob, a Jewish boy, had his home destroyed because of a fire started by some Christian boys. His parents were killed in the process. With a plant and a prayer, he can heal any wound within seconds. William is a tall African-American boy who dwarfs the average man in France. William can break a stone bench with his bare hand! Lastly, Gwenforte, the saint dog, rose from her grave after Jeanne’s parents killed her by accident. Some people called them saints, and others believed they were performing acts of the devil. Once the King of France found out about the children and their supposedly “holy greyhound,” he declared war on them. They became outlaws, running from the king and his knights.

Video games are a big part of life in modernized countries. It is one of the biggest entertainment money makers and of the things people enjoy doing. They are now mostly played inside the comfort of your home, with a console or computer. But things weren 't always like this. About 40 years ago you would most likely go to the arcade to play. The consoles they had out were either expensive or not good enough to compete with the arcade ones. Classic video games were made with 4-bit pixels and in very low resolution than modern day games. Over the decades, game machines continuously evolved and become more and more powerful, capable of stunning visuals and graphics. In the 21st century, social media, smart phone and tablet technology entered the gaming scene. Casual games become the norm attracting previously non-gamers into the market. However, if those low-quality games were never made, the games would not have evolved into the games they are today. In this article, I will cover main game a platform from the 1970’s to present day explaining what they are, their key development dates, features and limitations.

This is largely due to the boring plot. The antagonists are obvious from the beginning. The boring predictability of the book left almost no room for imagination and the story was so obvious that there was almost no point in finishing it because it was obvious about what was going to occur. Furthermore, there is a love interest that after a while is just thrown is as an afterthought. In other words, it was like he didn’t even exist at one point in the book. Sadly, the characters fall victim to a boring and predictable story. In conclusion, the characters’ personalities are the only aspect that made the book acceptable.

dull at the same time. There was has to be action between characters, alot of diaglouge to see wahts in the mind of the characters.

Now that technological companies all over the world have set most of the seven billion individuals in the world with a computer, smartphone or tablet, it is time for better software to use with them. This is where games come in. Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello stated in a recent interview that PC gaming is the ‘fastest growing platform’. This shows the growing interest in gaming bearing in mind that gamers also have the means to play on. The term ‘gamer’ refers to an individual that plays a game or games, typically a participant in a computer or role playing game. The gaming community has grown so wide in the last few years because of the shift from single player games to multiplayer games on the internet

In the beginning of the Inquisitor’s Tale, Jeanne was a baby in her crib with Gwenforte watching her sleep. As Jeanne was sleep, a snake snuck into her room and tried to attack her. Gwenforte saw the snake and growled at it to give it a warning. The snake didn’t care about Gwenforte’s warning and went towards Jeanne in her crib. Gwenforte covered Jeanne hay to hide her from the snake and prevented her from not witnessing the scene that was about to happen. Gwenforte jumped on the snake and bit it while it was still down. The snake slowly died, while blood covered the whole room as the parents walked in from working. Jeanne parents saw the blood around the room, and they thought Gwenforte had killed Jeanne while she was sleeping. The parents

Freedom is the insurmountable, unobtainable goal of every man, to do whatever they want without suppression. Free will is the concept proposed by the mind and executed by the body, to openly control its actions without outside comments. Freedom and free-will come at a price. Millions of people across the span of time have laid down their life to close the deficit to pay for these two things. During the Revolutionary War, the United States fought for their freedom against the United Kingdom and eventually gained their independence. During the Civil War the Northern states fought against the Southern states to gain freedom for slaves. And even today, wars are being fought

Sometimes it seems like the computer game industry is dying, crushed to death by its own bulk. Every year more and more gaming companies get gobbled up into huge conglomerates like Electronic Arts, companies that mostly put out trash that is technically and visually impressive, but devoid of concept and content. However, there are some small gaming companies that buck the trend. While mostly just small groups of programmers and artists, some are huge unions of fans who, irritated with the dropping quality of computer games, have decided to use the power of the internet to get together and to produce games tailor-made to their personal preferences.

Many video games use visuals to mentally immerse gamers into a virtual world filled with seemingly living, breathing people, animals, or cities. According to Michael Samyn and Auriea Harvey, game designers for Tale of Tales, video games increasingly develop into a true medium of artistic expression (Lamb). In just forty years, video games transformed from an abuse of the new computer for entertainment purposes into a sophisticated form of popular art. The development of video games recently produced results that arguably equal other similar, representational arts. Video games share many qualities with other forms of art, but they are also artistically significant in their own way. “This seems to be something

Video games in today’s society have become very popular. Every new game that comes out to be played and conquered by the average gamer has its own category. There are several other types of genres of games that people play but because of big hit titles and the new popular game systems like the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, people become more interested in a game that is well known than a game they have never even heard of before. Every game has its own storyline and own way of how it unfolds and where the game ends according to game play. Some of the biggest reasons people sway to certain genres of games is because of the game titles released under them and the demand of people who want a good game under that category. The top three most

At the beginning, the book is set up very dark and dreary, I don't like the vibe. It sets a theme of Evil and the Holmes character is creepy.

Gaming is becoming mainstream and it’s generating a lot of buzz. It’s not just that we like to spend more time playing games, gaming itself is becoming increasingly lucrative and competitive. This kind of rise in popularity is bound to mean one thing: changes in the industry. New gaming trends are popping up and they will change the future of gaming once more. What to expect?