The Video Game Delivery

Automated routine operations and streamlined provisioning allow avoiding excessive and time-consuming actions for IT staff, thus reducing their workload and minimizing the risk of errors. The easy-to-use Self-Service Web Interface gives users the opportunity to maintain their personal information themselves without involving IT staff. Operations on multiple

According to several studies, women are now making up a significant portion of the gaming demographic, but the industry hasn’t done much to make them feel welcome. During the last decade, the mainstream video game industry has seemed to operate under the same apparent assumptions: girls don’t play big action games, boys like the sexualization of girls in video games and won’t play as a female character unless she is heavily sexualized, and that girls play video games for the attention of boys. These assumptions are what allows the gaming industry to continue to focus on their male players, particularly young men, despite the fact that the number of women playing games today may someday soon rival the number of men.

Gaming consoles have come a long way from where they started. There was many variations of the game Pong to 3D realistic environments. From the start as a simulator all the way down as way of exercising. There were many consoles at the beginning, and then through time it came down to a final three top selling companies. Every gamer, close to the age of thirty and over, has seen the generations of game consoles evolve. There are 7 generations total of game consoles. Game consoles have become part of our culture, some people do not know it yet, but in some way they are gamers. In the beginning there was Ralph H. Baer, “The Father of Video Games”, and he created the “Brown Box” in 1968. Now the Brown Box was a working prototype. It was the

There is a concern on how to manage underage rental of DVD’s and age restricted games. The Motion Picture Association of America (37) has established ratings that are socially acceptable for rating videos. There are also similar video game restrictions set up by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) that rates content contained in the game and recommended age appropriateness. (36). To comply with these rating entities, Redbox has a disclaimer that must be acknowledge about the rating on the DVD or game chosen and the renter is of appropriate age.

The first key finding I had on IBISWorld was the fact that annual growth in the video game market has grown by 4.0% (IBISWorld, 1). I also found that the video game publishing software employs over 103,000 individuals (IBISWorld, Software Publishing). The last key finding I had was that the social network game department has advanced heavily since its introduction to the systems (IBISWorld, Social Network).

Australia’s gaming industry holds much power to its name, but it has become apparent that there are many unsolved issues which still linger on today. The question of whether parental supervision is necessary for children under the age of interest and if the banning of games solely in Australia is justified has affected the gaming community enormously; being debated over for countless years.

“The ESRB is a self-regulatory body established in 1994 by the Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA). The major video game manufacturers created this board after concerned groups applied pressure over the content of video games.” (Norcia, "The Impact of Video Games"). The ESRB tries to objectively describe their content and identify anything that is potentially offensive. Because of this review board everyone who buys, or plays video games can know what to expect from the content of the game by reading the game rating located on the game’s

This legislation is to strengthen the present industry-controlled rating system and to ban the sale or rental any video games that are excessively violent that consist killing, hurting, dissecting or sexually assaulting an image of a human being to those who were under 18 (Mears).

There is a ratings system that applies to all video games market, designed to keep minors from obtaining games that have been deemed inappropriate. There are six different ratings, ranging from EC (early childhood) to AO (adults only). In between are, ranging in terms of least violent to more violent, E (Everyone), E10+ (Everyone 10 and older), T (Teen), and M (Mature) (Game Ratings par. 3-6). Although the intent of the game ratings system is clear, its effectiveness is usually in question. Aside from lucid guidelines, it is still difficult to get results. Who is to govern the people once the game is in their hands? For instance, take a kid who is ?of age? buying a game rated M, then passing it down to his younger friends or siblings once he is finished playing it? The ratings system seems to be ?one of those things? with the right intention that yields ineffective results. The system does, however, require retailers to check ID?s to assure proper coincidence with the ratings. It is left to the retailer to follow those rules.

The now multi-billion dollar video game industry starting slowly. In 1972, Atari developed Pong, a simple tennis-like game played on the television screen. Pongwas followed by Space Invadersin 1978 (Griffiths 223). Since then, thousands of games are available over the Internet, on CDROM for personal computers, hand-held units, and television console units like Playstation, Nintento, and Sega. Further, the market has developed beyond just entertainment, now providing educational games that make learning fun. Commercially successful titles sell around 350,000 copies and a few go beyond sales of one million units (Sanchez-Crespo Dalmau 3). Top selling games like Myst (for PCs)

There was a unique buzz at the 2012 South By Southwest Technology Conference.  It was not related to the latest video game system nor was it related to the latest smart phone.  No, the unique buzz was concerned with having homeless people wear wireless transmitters.  Homeless people were hired by a marketing agency, BBH Labs, to walk around the conference with mobile Wi-Fi devices so that the attendees of the conference could receive Internet access.  The homeless people were paid $20 a day and allowed to keep any tips given to them.  Thirteen homeless people walked around the conference carrying the device, passing out business cards for BBH Labs, and wearing T-shirts advertising BBH.  The T-shirts had their names and function such as “I’m Clarence, a 4G Hotspot”. The homeless people were told to go to the most crowded parts of the conference area so they could advertise BBH Labs “Homeless Hotspots” projects, which the marketing firm classified as a “charitable experiment.”  One attendee, Tim Carmody, who is a blogger for Wired magazine, seemed to capture the general consensus of the conference attendees.  Carmody stated that the whole idea and project was “completely problematic” and he compared the idea of using human beings as Wi-Fi transmitters as “something out of a darkly satirical science-fiction dystopia.” A spokesperson for BBH Labs, Saneel Radia, director of innovation, claimed that the company was not taking advantage of the homeless people and compared the Wi-Fi

According to the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), Sales of “family entertainment” video games more than doubled in 2007, making it the fastest growing segment of the video game market. The average game player (or

* Instead of focusing on one particular target segment (18 to 35 year-old male gamers with above average-education and high degree of comfort with new technology) further target segments should also be focused (e.g. women, children, occasional gamers and non-gamers). Some of the further customers require games which are easy to play because they have a low degree of comfort with new technologies. Furthermore some of them don’t want to invest a significant amount of their time to learn and play these games because of their busy lives.

Herman et all (2002) points out that history of video games begins from 1971 year, when Nutting association released 1500 machines with Spacewar video game. At the beginning it was too difficult to control the game process and playing machines had huge dimensions. But by the time with new technologies they become more compact and easier to play. According to the information given by Herman et all (2002), the period between the years of 1978-1981 is called ‘golden age’ of video game industry. In this period the arcade games ‘Football’ and ‘Space Invaders’ were released. All previously known sale records were broken by these two games with nearly equal wages. In this time interval great breakthroughs in the field of graphics were achieved,

Legealian is the gaming application was released in 2011 and currently has access to 13% of the total United Kingdom’s gaming market share. It is an online and offline gaming platform of both online and offline activities. In the online gaming it provides games of sports and other games to bridge a gap of only one type of game for each application, to have a