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1. http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN2425415820070624?feedType=RSS&rpc=452&sp=true (Retrieved on
"Addiction experts say vedio games not an addiction“ Reuters, June 25, 2007.
Dr. Louis Kraus of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and a psychiatrist at Rush University Medical Center, said “The more time kids spend on video games, the less time they will have socializing, the less time they will have with their families, the less time they will have exercising. ”
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/17/48hours/main525965.shtml
(Retrieved on 23/10/07)
Sony Online CEO John Smedley said,
“addictive” is nonsense. “It’s entertainment. Is a book dangerous? Is a TV show dangerous? I think the answer is no. People need to take responsibility and say, ‘Hey, you know, this is too much. Enough’s enough.’ It’s a game.”
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=188100460
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“Video Games Also Attractive To The Young At Heart”,Gonsalves,June18, 2006. Retrieved on
“Video game addicts are more likely to have game consoles in their bedroom and spend an average of 24.5 hours per week shooting imaginary bad guys in the virtual worlds. Besides being more likely to perform poorly in school, addicts get into more physical fights and are physically heavier than nonaddicts.”
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http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/gamerrevolution.html (Retrieved on
Rachel Low, President, Red Apple Entertainment,said, "The idea of living inside a computer-generated universe is happening right now. The line between the real world and the virtual world is disappearing. Millions of people feel that they have a life inside these games."
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http://www.jupitermedia.com/corporate/releases/02.11.06-gamerep.html (Retrieved on
Michael Gartenberg, Research Director for Jupiter Research,said,
"An older more usage-intense audience is a powerful change for game companies who struggle to adapt hardware and games for profitability in a highly competitive market. As the audience ages, the content will need to mature as well."
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Earnshaw, R. A., & Vince, J. (2000). Digital media :The future.
This book gives us some brief information of how European thinks about the new media technology. It also talks about the human –computer interaction with global information spaces, which helps us to think about the relationship between human and video games.
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This book gives us a broader sense of video games culture. It discusses what makes video games unique as a brand new art form. It gives us the ideas that video games should be seriously respected, as same as with other forms such as film, painting and literature.This books contains many chapters and each chapters has different ways to look at the video game culture, which can help us to know more from different views of points.
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Wiedemann, J. (2001). Digital beauties :2D & 3D computer generated digital models, virtual idols and characters. Koln;
This book contains many images of 2D and 3 D images of the characters of video games. However, it mainly focuses on the designs of female, but it can help us to understand the intention of the artists and the technique of making the female characters.
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http://uk.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUKN2425415820070624?feedType=RSS&rpc=452&sp=true (Retrieved on
This article brings out a controversial topic of whether designate video game addiction as a mental disorder . It brings out the problems of more people addicting to video games. Seriously, some addicted people have the mental problems. It provides us some ideas of each sides of the decision of treating the video addition as a mental disorder.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/17/48hours/main525965.shtml (Retrieved on 23/10/07)
This news states the truth that a youngster is too addictive to the video games that he
cannot come out of the reality and finally he get suicide. This helps us to think that who need to bear the responsibility of the death. The addicted youngster? Or the designers of the game? The society?
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http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=198701937
(Retrieved on
It conducts the result of a survey saying that the youth from ages 8 to 18 addicted gamers receive lower grades in school than their peers. It also mentions the amount of time played differs by age and gender with supporting data. I t gives us a prove that how video games affect the young children.
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http://www.theesa.com/files/2005EssentialFacts.pdf (Retrieved on
It is a result to the survey. It provides graph and data for us to analyse who plays computer and video games, how long the games have been playing, how long the gamers expect to continue playing. I t also investigates what the top-selling game genres were.
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http://www.1up.com/(Retrieved on
This link is a website mainly focusing on the video games’ world. It posts the updated most popular video games , news, previews and reviews of video games. It really can provide us in-depth information of the video game ‘s world. The most useful part of this website is that the news are particularly about the video games and they are from different newspapers, magazines of the different places, so we can look at different aspects of the game culture.
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http://www.jupitermedia.com/corporate/releases/02.11.06-gamerep.html (Retrieved on
I find it useful as this website states out that the report of Jupiter Research, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), found that the average console user is already an adult, which is a significant change of the video game culture. The change of age group raises a challenge to the game production company to change the content and promotion strategy.
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This website identifies five specific forces, which are computer hardware costs, game software power, social acceptance, other industry successes, and native industry experimentation, that cause the video game industry to adopt game technologies for their core products and services.
In the past, I just recognised that people who play video games are mostly teenagers and the gender is male for majority. However, I am surprising that the people who play video games now are more widespread, even adults and female like playing video games.
I find interesting that why people are so addicted to the games and how attractive the video games are. These provide me a driving force to examine the video game culture in depth.
When the video game culture is so popular, it intervenes our lives. What problems would it bring out? Is it conducive to the society?
