Video games are a global phenomenon, according to a state of the industry report by Spil Games, the number of gamers has reached 1.2 billion in the world and 700 million of them focusing on online game. The players are children, adult, even some elderly is enjoying the world of games. In the recent years, people debate about the social impact of video games and the effect they have on the people who play it, especially for the children. Many parents against their children to play video games, they
consider video games to be bad- but are they actually? With each day, children are playing more video games. There are many video games and game consoles available in the market and the children are eager to buy that. Not only children even teenage boys and girls and also young adults indulge in the pleasurable moments of video games. Parents come with complains that there children is getting to video games or their children are having health issues or mental issues because of video games. More than
was estimated that 81% of American youth played video games at least once every month with about 8.5% of them video game addicts. With video games now more prominent, it now estimated that up to 90% of American youth aged between 12-18 play at least 14 hours of video games every week. With such mind boggling numbers coupled with the many studies suggesting a link between video games and psychological/neurological disorders, the question Are video games a bad influence? is very relevant. Nonetheless
of entertainment, specifically violent video games. There is a company that places ratings on video games known as the ESRB (entertainment software rating board). They review video games before they are published and grade them on their content. The ratings are RP (rating pending, for games that have not received a final rating yet. It is used for marketing purposes only and games with an RP rating may not be sold), EC (early childhood, usually learning games), E (everyone), E10+ (everyone age 10
my mom told me that playing video games was a waste of time. I would say something like that because I would be so fixed on the game that I was playing, that I couldn’t find anything more intelligent to say. All I wanted to do was play games all day and I couldn’t really focus on anything else. According to the Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, video games are addictive, which is a central argument against playing video games. According to the book, game addiction is an irresistible
previous paragraphs, the risks of playing violent video games still outweigh the benefits. The negative effects are still more evident and immediate than the benefits. Moreover, these effects not only affect the children in a short-term period, but also in a long-term period. Playing video games increases the confidence of the gamer, but this does not mean that the gamer is also good in other aspects of life. One may earn confidence in playing video games because of the high level he/she have accomplished
Phones were first invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell and a little less than a century later the mobile phone was invented in 1973 ("Alexander Graham Bell" 2009). Now there are about 7 billion people and around 6.8 have a mobile device. These phones cause up to 1.6 million car crashes every year and 1 in 4 out of every car accidents in the U.S. is because of texting and driving ("Texting and Driving Accident Statistics - Distracted Driving"). After examining if technology is a distraction,
culture have helped us, I still stand by this side. The pros outweigh the cons in pop culture because there are many things that pop culture has given us that are good. Pop culture has become more and more controversial over the years, even though it has gotten better over the long period of time we have been alive. However, there still is a lot of good things about pop culture these days. It shows these good things through social media, video games, music, movies, and TV shows.
long and drawn out series that the inventors and creatures put all of their work into it to make it up as big as the series is now… the pokemon series has been going on since february 27, 1996, and now it is 2018. So is now one of the most known card game known across the
example, Skype is a well-known platform where you can video call your friends which are few kilometres away or in other country, they can connect with you in real-time as if you are sitting side by side. With the internet, we no longer have writing letters to each other and waiting for the postman to send or receive the letter in order to maintain our friendship. Besides, we connect with friends by playing online games, especially multiplayer online games. We often share the same score and goals is also