Gamer

and more challenging to people. Scientists have studied and researched that gamers are smarter than non-gamers in different aspects. On-line games help and improve gamers mind set in the working field by

the, impossible. The impossible was using the concept of entertainment as a tool for learning. Morgan expressed his bias view on the gaming community in his article. He listed off some of the key stereo types you may think of when you envision a “Gamer”. Overweight, lives at home, consumed with games,

meetings and elections, it makes up in conventions and LAN tournaments. The gaming community boasts large gaming conventions such as PAX, and E3, where thousands of gamers meet and socialize while playing the newest games. LAN is Local Area Network, which is used to hold massive tournaments where many can pit themselves against other gamers. These Colosseums are where the celebrities of the gaming world are born, rising from the bodies of the hundreds they had slain to win. There is no law keeping force

There are two types of gamers, the casual players and the Hard Core Players. I definitely fall under hard core player. This is how you categorize it Hard Gamers are the people who stay up all night, forget about responsibilities and just immerse themselves in the game. They wait for the next game to come out and they just spend hours upon hours

video games have the ability to actually teach and strengthen the effect of multitasking on the brain, with a long term effect of consistent results due to scientific studies taken. In Jane McGonigal’s “Be a gamer, Save the world”, the passage, speaks on the outlook of video games and the gamers themselves. With the idea of gaming perceived as time wasting and useless, the author explains the benefits that come about the virtually interactive world. McGonigal

only, one out of ten regular gamer can be categorized as game addicts (webpage), which indicates that not many

In another study, those who play action video games on a regular basis can process visual information faster and can track 30 percent more objects than non gamers. Action video games are shown to increase one's contrast sensitivity, or the ability to notice minute changes in color against a uniform background. One group of gamers played action games, like Call of Duty, while the others played The Sims. The Call of Duty group showed a 38 percent increase in aforementioned sensitivity, whereas

critically analysing the research paper ‘I, Gamer: Gamer Identity in South Africa’ by Bianca Wright. I will analyse the research paper by looking at the main themes of the paper, which are stereotypes and the concept of ‘the other’ and how they were targeted and addressed in the research, the research methods that were used, how appropriate and effective they were and the impact on other gamer identity research papers that this paper has had. ‘I-Gamer: Gamer Identity in South Africa’ is based on gaming

The controversy surrounding calling E-sports a sport is met with intense arguments from all spectrums: gamers and non-gamers will both argue for or against granting E-sports the title of sport. However, regardless of the positive or the negative arguments, E-sports is both incredibly popular and profitable. In 2013, Riot Games Inc. organized the largest E-sport

through a huge development where the entire planet spend more than 3 billion hours a week playing video games. In the speech “Online Harassment and Cyber Mobs” Anita Sarkeesian, who is a female gamer, talks about the stereotypes of gaming. The type of people who don’t think women should be a part of the gamer world. A world, which is dominated by men and where online harassment of the other gender is something we see everyday. This is the stereotype Sarkeesian talks about and this is the stereotype