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I was two years old and I stayed home with my mother until I was three. Then, my father opened a grocery store. At that time I had no idea what was happening, I just knew I was traveling somewhere and that was going to be a blast. Afterwards, every day I was going to the same place for thirty-seven years, which is part of my life. I always treated my house as a hotel and the store as my first home. All my schools from Preschool through Highschool were walking distance from the store, including

Some people consider videogames a waste of time. They say they are bad for kids, not educational, or socially isolating. Henry Jenkins, the director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a broad experience and has done a lot of research in the video game industry. In his article, “Reality Bytes”, Henry Jenkins argues in favor of video games by using the rhetorical strategies of appeal to the authority, appealing to societal values and creating

first game developed by Atari Inc., by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.” (History, 2017) So with PONG being the first game invented and Call of Duty being the most popular game now a days I thought it was good to see how gaming has changed from 1972 to 2017. With how the whole aspect has changed from a simple tennis sport simulator to a well detail high programed game. Within a year of Pong being out Atari launched a console version which could be streamed on to your TV, “Atari with a steady source of

Globally, gamers are investing a collective three-billion hours into online video games per week. This staggering amount is only on the rise, according to game designer and author, Jane McGonigal. In her book, Reality is Broken, McGonigal expressed her concerns with the startling growth of the game industry in such a brief period of time. “In today’s society computer and video games are fulfilling genuine human needs that the real world is currently unable to satisfy. Games are providing rewards

While the media portrays gaming as a antisocial violent unhealthy habit for the common immature male, the reality is that the gaming industry has diversified immensely over the last half-century. As such, I will write to non-gamers everywhere to extend a welcoming hand into our community by focusing on its entertainment value and genre diversity. Following this, I will write to the artist community to invite them join, and possibly work for, the videogame industry by speaking about the copious opportunities

A player’s personal experience of transforming platforms and interfaces: from Game Boy to personal computers Introduction Accept it or not, video games and “gaming” are a large part of Australian culture. The average Australian 21-year-old would have spent over 10,000 hours playing games (that’s how long it takes to complete school from year 5 to year 12). For immeasurable reasons such as involvement, freedom, entertainment and story-telling are games such a powerful medium of creative and interactive

As the world of competitive gaming evolves,some colleges are beginning to offer a gaming scholarships. The article Good with a joystick? One university gives scholarships to video gamers written on December 11th, 2015 by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is about the Robert Morris University. Robert Morris was one of the first universities to offer scholarships for playing video games. Video game scholarships are a great idea as there was over 25 million dollars available in competitive gaming in 2013

In the beginning video games such as Spacewar! (1962) started with little to no graphics displayed on small black and white oscilloscope screens.
As technology in video games improves so does our ability to display larger more detailed graphics and images, leading to beautiful hand drawn and animated games such as Dark Stalkers (Capcom 1994) and Lori and the blind forest (Moon Studios 2015). Along with this improvement in technology and graphics, the search for more immersive experiences has also

The Gaming Industry Today Video games have been prominent in the entertainment industry since the early 1980’s. It has now grown significantly, leaving a large impact on the world in many different ways. It has changed the entertainment industry forever, the demographic and technology still growing and transforming. Billions of dollars are earned in the business per year and the numbers continue to grow. Gaming is changing the world as we know it. The entertainment industry as a whole has changed