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    Calling all gamers! Every video gamer knows that when a new video game comes out everyone wants to get their hands on it. The Call of Duty Games are played all over the world and the Black Ops installment of the games took the world by storm. However, for Call of Duty Black Ops 3, millions of gamers were still focused on Black Ops 2. With the new game not be anticipated by as many players as Activision had hoped. The creator of Black Ops games Treyarch, Snapchat, and Edelman work together in the

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    football, you are a gamer. Esports is a controversial topic when it comes to professional gamers, especially in western states. Many people believe that people who play video games are not athletes. However, Some argue that being a professional gamer takes the same amount of hard work as any other sport. I agree, professional gamers take video games to a whole new level and only a small

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    Grant Anderson 4/4/16 The Gamer Grief is experienced as the emotional, physical, cognitive, and behavioral responses to loss. These elements, like a fog rolling in, cover what may be right in front of your eyes. I have studied this the grief matrix for years. I am an expert in at leading people through the maze of grief. It is one of my specialties. Authors, like Amy Hemple, write about the language of grief. With help from their her detailed prose, I have honed my skills. I have worked with doctors

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    Alex Weiss an ex -Video gamer believes that “Video games are not work or investments for which people should be compensated; they are escapism.” His rational is based on the decision of the Dutch court to charge a 13year old boy with stealing two virtual items during the playing of a game called RuneScape. Weiss uses different examples as to why he believes the 13-year-old had done nothing wrong. One reason being” the developers of the game RuneScape did not explicitly state that the thief couldn’t

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    “videogame” is a common topic for debate. The network of information technology has been installed globally, which leads to more and more games being created to satisfy human’s entertainment demand. The article on video games benefits, entitiled “Be a Gamer, Save the World” by Jane McGonigal, illustrates how games can play an essential role in solving problems which the world is facing. However, everything has it own merits and drawbacks. Playing video games should be discouraged because of these four

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    Jane McGonigal in “Be a gamer, save the world”, video games have the ability to provide gamers with an opportunity to live a happy meaningful life by offering the hope of success with strong social connection and a satisfying work environment with a chance of becoming a part of something bigger. McGonigal believes that video games give gamers a sense of self and allows them to reach outside of who they are and empowers them to tackle real-world problems. Typically gamers are looked at as being escapist

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    PS4 Is Better for a Gamer than Xbox one The battle of PlayStation verses Xbox is going on for over two decades. This battle started when first generation of these gaming consoles came out. With every generation of these console, the title of who won has kept changing. Xbox had the title of better gaming system for the past two generations and now this generation PlayStation four have gained back the title. PlayStation have taken huge failures as gaming system with PlayStation two and PlayStation

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    disrespect and bickering. The reason I thought that was because I assumed that because they don't have face to face contact with any other gamers and there are no real life consequences to insulting another gamer they wouldn't be worried about saving face or hurting others feelings. The contrary turned out to be true, especially in the communication between serious gamers. They treat each other with a great deal of respect and follow what appear to be a quiet a few unwritten rules of conduct in and out

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    Gamers messing around It was night time around January of the year two thousand seventeen. Me and my sister, Maggie, was playing a game with only blocks called “Minecraft” on our Smart TV in our living room, only having two lamps lighting the room. We were playing in a world that I had created. The mode of the game was on “Survival”, so that means we can die, go hungry, and monsters, like zombies and skeletons, can attack us. As we enter my world, we started in different locations. Maggie

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    AS in Fine Arts Shalyra Alleyne 901234091 Bullock, Richard, and Goggin, Maureen D, and Weinberg, Francine, editors. The Norton Field Guide to writing with readings and handbook. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. The argument essay “Should Gamers Be Prosecuted for Virtual Stealing” by Alex Weiss, starts off by him revealing the story of the Dutch Supreme Court that is convicting a 13-year old teenager of virtually stealing another players amulet and shield. Alex then proceeds to elucidate “disappointing

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