Video game addiction

Pros and Cons of Video Games Video games have been around for more than 40 years and have kept advancing with each decade. According to Stastica.com1, as of 2013, the time spent playing a video game is 23.2 minutes per day. That adds up to over 150 hours a week. The video game industry is projected to grow to more than 101.6 billion in revenue in 2014 according to Gartner, Inc.’s (American information technology research and advisory) projections. Have you ever wondered how this could affect…

Where Some of these entertainment like video games has become the central part of the social word for many youths and adolescence. Which needs to be banned out for some reasons because these sources like violent video games have been regarded by many researchers as leading to the contribution of negative effects among the users who are more likely to be young teens? Violent video games lead young people to aggressive behavior, bad performance in schools, addiction,…

December 1, 2014 Can Video Games Change the Way People Behave? 1.2 billion people play video games because they’re addictive, entertaining, and fun. (Venturebeat, “More than 1.2 Billion People Are Playing Video Games,” page 2). Many people play video games for different reasons, such as to relieve stress, avoid schoolwork, chores, which could get out of hand. Brian Knight, one of the authors from the book, The Ultimate History of Video Games, remarked, “Before video games were introduced,…

years ago, now it is as easy as playing a game. Well, technology and gaming have moved into our classrooms too and they are there to stay. Gershenfeld (2014) describes gamification as “applying the principles of game design to solve real-world challenges” (p. 55). There is no doubt that applying technology and the principles of video gaming for educational…

Violent video games are known to have both negative and positive effects on individuals. According to Pediatric Clinics of North America, “playing violent video games can prime aggressive thoughts, increase positive attitudes toward violence, and help create a hostile attribution.” However, there are some pros of video games. Video games can improve their ability to evaluate tasks and information as well as define motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Games can help both children and adults…

educational games are a part of the learning environment which enhances students' motivation to learn and improve with critical thinking. When it comes to conventional schooling many students find it tedious, uninteresting and unproductive. Teachers face these problems and are looking for more positive, motivating approaches toward teaching students. As long as the game doesn't involve violence or bloodshed it may have educational value. In Steven McManus' essay, “Five Reasons Why Video Games…

Video Gaming Introduction Since my parents were always working, I had no one to take care of me at this young age so my dad would drop me off at my cousin’s house every morning. As a young kid little did I know about the world of art, graphics, storyboards, and all the other things associated with video games. When my cousin came home from school it was his duty to entertain me and one day he introduced me to his Nintendo 64. Yup, one of the greatest video gaming consoles of all time that…

new game system - Xbox, Playstations and Nintendo’s are being just few of the latest. Today, more and more people are contributing to the addiction and growth of video games. With each passing month video games becomes more and more realistic, in extent to the violence and harsh language used in many popular games. The main consumers for violent video games are teenagers and children, who seem to copy and mimic what they see, hear or learn from these types of ‘harmless’ games. Many video games…

being drawn from reality into a violent and inappropriate place for a child to be. These games are not only distancing loving parents from their children; the games may actually be making kids more aggressive. Videogames can lead to violence by putting the player under a mountain of stress, distancing the player from a good source of guidance, and desensitizing the player to violence. To start, video games can be a huge cause of stress in the lives of some people. Stress is proven to be…

Video Games constitute a new phenomenon in modern society. With the advance of technology and graphic display, the content of video games has become more aggressive and disturbing. For the past few decades, since video games were first created, the gaming industry has been developing games that would surpass other games before it. Video games have incredibly changed over time. Before, graphic systems limited many features. Violence was not realistic and blood was not red. Nowadays with the…