Video Gaming Essays

  • Gaming: Video Games, And Misconceptions Of Gaming

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    Misconceptions of Gaming Video games have been intensely speculated and observed since the day were released, and continues to be studied. Gaming has become very popular in the last decade, and its very common for someone to own some sort of entertainment system. Video games are open to all ages but attracts a great deal of the younger crowd. As any parent would, they want to make sure that their child is safe. Unfortunately, the stereotypes surrounding the gaming community, have given video games a poor

  • The Video Gaming Industry

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    of the internet, smart phones, and video gaming systems. The world we live in now was unimaginable and the technology advances we have made are remarkable. Video game consoles and how we as a society play them has changed dramatically since the beginning of gaming in the 1970’s. Over the last decade there have been many arguments concerning video games such as too much violence, obesity, addiction, social wellbeing, and many other health related issues. Video games also have some advantages to

  • Video Gaming Reflection

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    those best solutions for some is video gaming. Although, not everyone thinks about the game development process goes through. Some are just fine leaving it that way. Me however, I 'm apart of the group that wants to learn more about game development. In order to begin satisfying my curiosity, I am discovering the details of a process for the game engine known as Unity. As formerly mentioned, everyone needs an escape and I was no exception. Since I was young, video

  • Gaming: Video Games

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    that video games change people and mislead them to do bad things, such as drugs and alcohol, but it is the opposite. Gaming prevents people from such acts and actually helps to keep them away from the substances. Lots of people, mainly parents, believe that video games harm people so they try to keep their children away from them. In reality, video games make your life better. Video games can provide many benefits to your lifestyle as “numerous academic studies indicate that playing video games

  • The Rise Of The Professional Competitive Video Gaming

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    Imagine that more than twenty years ago people didn’t even know about professional competitive gaming. They would never think that in the future eSport (electronic sport), would be growing up extremely fast. “Last year, tournaments awarded more than $15 million around the world, up from just over a $1 million a decade ago” (Holden 87) according to the statistics from the esportsearnings.com. Just think about it, the first place team can be guaranteed to get at least $1 million dollars, and this is

  • The Video Gaming Culture in Japan

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    where they live. There are many gamers around the world, and one of the largest gaming populations is located in Japan. (Niizumi) Japan has been, and continues to be one of the largest developers and creators of both of video gaming consoles and video games around the world. (Niizumi) Japanese video games are beneficial to society and are an excellent source of employment to many in Japan. To understand how video gaming relates to Japanese culture we need to understand more about the country of Japan

  • Should Video Gaming Be Classified As A Sport?

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    Speech 2 Hello everyone. Nowadays, video gaming, no matter if its online or offline, private computer (PC) or consoles, had becomed a worldwide phenomena. In 2016, video gaming, or what some people call it “eSports”, is equivalent to the largest Boxing prize fight ever and MLS’s 2015 revenue at $500M. Today I would like to give a speech on “Should video gaming be classified as sport?”. My opinion on this is absolutely no. Sports should be good for health, requires athletic skills, and help you

  • Competition and Innovation in the Video Gaming Industry

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    evolution of industries: Progress and challenges” International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 675-¬‐699, choose an industry and describe how its structure and current state of emergence affect competition and innovation. Video games have had high demand over the past decade. Many titles such Call Of Duty and Grand Theft Auto make billions of dollars in profits. (1) What began as a small market in the late 1970’s has grown drastically over the years. Technology has improved

  • The Gaming Industry: The Growth Of The Video Game Industry

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    The video game industry frequently connotes and restricts itself to the hotbed of console gaming. However, this segment, while quite large, fails to accurately represent the gaming industry’s economic, social, and interactive structure. And the game (or gaming) industry refers all to often to gambling rings. Thus, the “industry of games,” as a collection of interactive media, provides a more robust, inclusive notion of play that transcends platforms, roots of origin, and digital versus non-digital

  • eSports: Professional Video Gaming

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    Broadcasted competitive gaming has been around since the beginning of arcade games when people were competing for the highest score on shows like Starcade back in 1982(Bell). However, in the past couple of years the competitive gaming world has exploded in growth with more games, more tournaments, more players, and bigger cash prizes. During this most recent November there were eight major tournaments for a multitude of games including League of Legends, Call of Duty, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive

  • Flourishing in Video Games: The Improvements of Child Development through an Examination of the Effects of Particular Gaming Aspects

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    Self-centered hobbies, such as video games, are often left out, viewed as promoting little towards productivity and its assumed benefits. This produces tension through what is commonly considered to be positively productive towards flourishing, and a growing medium, with children especially, which proposes enjoyment through technological solitude. From this, I wonder if optimal functioning is only attainable through traditional methods of productivity as compared to the passivity gaming is perceived to promote

  • The Gaming Stereotype

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    with “geek” in many people’s minds. They see gaming as a device that absorbs the majority of the time of the user, leaving them as mindless empty, pale husks with no ambitions other than beating that next boss or shooting the enemy in the face. However, few gamers waste their life away. On the contrary, many of these so-called geeks tend to be more social than the average person, and farther down the technological curve than most. For the truth is that gaming is a rather useful and beneficial hobby.

  • Personal Narrative: Tick Tock

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    Tick Tock Tick Tock, I hear the sound of a ticking clock, I try moving to stop the sound, I notice my leg is in a sharp pain and immobilized. I slowly open my eyes and see bright fluorescent lights. I look down at my knee to try to find the source of my pain and immobilization; all I can see are bandages and a large bulky brace. I realize that I have undergone some sort of operation. The challenge I faced was not racial, cultural, or mental; instead it was physical. At the ripe age of 12, I suffered

  • Persuasive Essay On Magic The Gathering

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    Without a doubt Magic: The Gathering can be an expensive game to play. With the explosive growth in popularity and the relatively low supply of some older cards, it’s no wonder why some cards are literally worth more than their weight in gold. Depending which format you play, you can spend as little as forty to sixty dollars for a top tier Pauper deck, to two to three thousand dollars for a Legacy deck. If you haven’t fainted from the price tag yet, hang on it gets worse. If you started playing Magic

  • Analysis Of Pokemon Go

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    As a member of 8 years of the gaming community, I am proud to say I play Pokemon Go. Pokemon Go is a game in where you walk around and capture these creatures with Pokeballs. Some members of the Game Center don 't agree with the new augmented reality, and real world locations applications because they find it dangerous. Lately, the news has been broadcasting players getting hurt, jumped, and even arrested. Very few players found themselves in car accidents, being lured into gunpoint robberies

  • Affective Gaming

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    ‘emotion engine'. Clearly the gaming community understands the importance of emotion in games, so why do most games offer the player such a shallow emotional play experience? The reason is partly due to the relative immaturity of the games industry. Whereas the film industry has a mature and well developed structure for how the auteur might evoke tears in the eyes of the audience, the digital games industry is still in the process of writing the rule book. With digital gaming being a visual medium, you

  • Legislation Against Pit Bulls Should Not Be Enacted

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    What words come to mind when one hears the words “pit bull?” How about aggressive, violent, or dangerous? In many cases, this isn’t actually true. Because of the negative media attention for attacks on humans and other dogs that pit bull breeds receive, many Americans place a stigma on pit bulls, tagging them as dangerous and vicious. This stigma typically applies to all pit bulls, not just the ones that are actually dangerous. To remedy the issue of dangerous dogs attacking other beings, the legislative

  • Microsoft Canada Executive Summary

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    Executive Summary Microsoft Canada is preparing its marketing plan for the Xbox over the coming year. The Xbox was launched the previous year and positioned as the complete home entertainment solution combining video gaming, the Internet and DVD playback. The Xbox is the most robust gaming console on the market, but faces stiff competition in its product category. The Sony Playstation 2 is the market leader with over 50% of the console market. Microsoft also faces competition from Nintendo and

  • Online Gaming in South Korea

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    Online Gaming in South Korea The rise of online gaming in South Korea has brought improved economic prospects and notoriety, but at what price? Beginning in the late 1990’s South Korea has quickly become the undisputed king of the online gaming world. Gaming and the culture that has grown up around it are now the defining aspects of the lives of many South Korea youths. While this eruption of online gaming has created revenue for the country and made South Korea a global hotspot for international

  • Essay On How Gambling Affects The Economy

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    In the words of one lottery director: "Lotteries are different from any other form of gaming product. Lottery players risk a small amount of money against very long odds to win a large prize, with net proceeds going to the public's good" (Jones, 9). With lotteries operating in 37 states and in the District of Columbia, Lotteries are the