EFFECT OF VIDEO GAME
Key points:
I. Violence

Four types of media violence studies provide converging evidence of effects: laboratory experiments, field experiments, cross-sectional correlation studies, and longitudinal studies (Anderson & Bushman, 2002a; Bushman & Huesmann, 2000).

But the development of a new genre—electronic video games—reinvigorated the debate. (Craig A. Anderson,2008 American Psychological Association
October 2003)

A. Violent video games are even more hazardous than violent television or cinema.

B. Recent video games reward players for killing innocent bystanders, police, and prostitutes, using a wide range of weapons including guns, knives, flame throwers, swords, baseball bats, cars, hands, and feet.

C. There are no studies linking violent video game play to serious aggression.
(Craig A. Anderson,2008 American Psychological Association October 2003)


II. Learning
Good computer and video games like System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Pikmin, Rise of Nations, Neverwinter Nights, and Xenosaga: Episode 1 are learning machines. They get themselves learned and learned well, so that they get played long and hard by a great many people. This is how they and their designers survive and perpetuate themselves. If a game cannot be learned and even mastered at a certain level, it won't get played by enough people, and the company that makes it will go broke.

III. The Industry
As a whole, worldwide entertainment revenues will grow by 7.3% to $1.9 trillion. However, the videogame sector will grow by an incredible 16.5% to reach $55 billion by 2009 with this amount not even including hardware sales. ( Steel Wade, global financial services and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.2005)

IV. SEX and Video Games

(CNSNews.com) - A new, best-selling video game, Mass Effect, made for the Microsoft Xbox 360 console, allows the characters to engage in explicitly graphic sexual intercourse. Some game experts and pro-family analysts say Mass Effect is marketed to young kids and presents a moral danger to them and that the companies making and marketing the game should be prosecuted.

V. Physical aspects of games
VI. E-comers
VII. Context aware gaming






Recent Updates:

MTV Networks is planning to spend $500m (£250m) on developing video games as part of a two-year worldwide strategy to extend its programming brands beyond the TV screen.

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