Essays on Video Games

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Introduction

The research topic is virtual reality on serious games in 2D. Virtual reality also referred to as virtual environment, refers to a computing technology that produces an artificial environment, which emulates the real world (Bennett 2014, p. 263). Serious games simulate reality in teaching and training environments (Crookall 2010, p. 898). The games play a role in enhancing the understanding of vital concepts, and the developing of cognitive skills. They are important pedagogic mediums since they are in a better position to encapsulate the imagination of learners than traditional teaching methods can. ...

Casino industry is considered to be one of the most profitable industries in the world. Its impact on the national economies is crucial. Theoretical studies within this sphere show us that the casino gambling entities provide their governments with quite significant benefits such as high level of taxes paid, infrastructure development by the cost of casinos and increased level of tourists to places where such enterprises are located. But in most publications little attention is paid to the problem of defining the specific impact of casino gambling as a part of hotel enterprises. That is why our main goal ...

Segmentation.

Sony Computer Entertainment, in 2004, released a handheld video game console PlayStation Portable. PlayStation Portable is also known as PSP. For the first time in a handheld game console, an optical disc format known as Universal Media Disc (UMD) was used.

Target Market.

MARKETSFrance | Spain | United Kingdom According to Computer Entertainment America Appoints New Senior Vice President (2011), Commonly in their mid to late twenties, single and overwhelmingly male. Gaming is their essential relaxation movement over 10 hours for every week. Hard-core gamers: Typically, in their mid to late twenties, single and predominantly male. Gaming is their primary leisure activity more ...

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Introduction

Oculus Rift is an application device from the field of Virtual Reality (VR) that potentially manipulates people's mind with a 3D experience. With virtual reality, it is now feasible to provide users with an experience that earlier would not have been possible. Virtual reality is a computerized simulated environment that through the help of some device gives the user an experience of that environment. The user through his mind experiences the virtual environment created and projected through the device enabling VR. The environment generated and perceived by ...

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Communication

Communication At work, employees frequently encounter certain problems that interfere with convenient conditions. Therefore, they should be able to address the issues with the management to prevent undesired consequences. Moreover, a supervisor can consider the working environment to be convenient and productive. However, the case “In the Vapor” shows that specific management approaches can disturb collaboration. Considering Linda’s situation, it is essential to inform the supervisor about her concerns and offer several suggestions to convince the management. A possible memorandum to Thomas Hale aims to express Linda’s concerns about approaches that cost great efforts (Appendix).

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The Great Progress of the Game Development Industry

Just a little background the first ever video game to be created was Tennis for Two by William Higinbotham and Steve Russell. “William Higinbotham would be credited as the first to design and implement a video game, Steve Russell would be the first to create a game that would inspire the multibillion-dollar video games industry” (Rabin 4). These days, humanity has Final Fantasy, Fallout, League of Legends, and more modern games. Think about the major evolution of game development. For aspiring game developers having the skills and knowledge isn’t enough to achieve success in the career. “Serialization is ...

Red Dawn is a movie directed by Bradley, Dan and written by Carl Ellsworth, Jeremy Passmore, Kevin Reynolds, and John Milius that was released in 2012. It is important to note that the film released in 2012 is a remake of a similarly titled film released in 1984. This movie feature prominent actors in its cast including Josh Peck (Matt), Chris Hemsworth (Jed), Josh Hutcherson (Robert), Isabel Lucas (Erica), Brett Cullen (Tom), Connor Cruise (Daryl), and Adrianne Palicki (Toni). In summary, this War film portrays an American City waking up to an invasion by Koreans seen through the paratroopers ...

1.0Lesson Information 1.1 Introduction This comprehensive lesson plan will be used to teach six-year-old students in grade one the essential basketball skills. The estimated developmental stage for children in this grade is the cognitive stage. The number of students that will be trained using the lesson plan lies between fifteen and twenty. The fundamental skills that the kids will be taught include dribbling, shooting, passing, catching and handling skills. The details of the skills are provided in Table 1 in section 3.3. 1.2 Standards of Physical Education The department of physical education in Virginia offers standards that govern physical ...

Introduction

Toys R Us was founded in 1948 in Washington, D.C and was originally just a baby furniture store. Since that time, the store has grown into a world-leading toys, video games, and baby products retailer. The company now owns over 863 stores in different locations across the U.S and 755 stores in 38 other countries (‘About us - toys“R”us corporate’, n.d.). The Corporation also recognized the value of e-commerce and launched online retail shops called Toysrus.com and Babiesrus.com that are two of the most visited websites in the online toy and baby products shopping categories. The company ...

A short film “Ghost Recon: Alpha” is the background to the game “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier”, released in 2012 (Alaux et al.). The French company, engaged in the video games production, Ubisoft performed the adaptation of the given film. After a bad start of the game Prince of Persia on the big screen, Ubisoft came to a more serious approach to this issue. Ubisoft decided to perform shootings of the acclaimed video game series “Assassin's Sreed” through its own efforts and at its own expense, thereby fully preserving copyright movies. Such a move is quite expected, as this will ...

Computers are complicated machines that require multiple trial and error sessions to understand, and the different programs they carry, make it harder to do the same. My first experience with computers revolved around my parents purchasing an Acorn Archimedes sometime in the nineties; I cannot remember the exact date or year. Nonetheless, only the older children in the neighborhood could play computer games, and the adults found a different use for the contraption. At home, it was the same with my parents, especially my father who would spend hours in front of the machine as I silently watched his ...

Introduction

Bloom’s Taxonomy offers a hierarchal model used for categorizing learning objectives according to complexity and knowledge and application of content(Clark, 2014). The hierarchy describes different kinds of learning and different levels of mastery (Simpson, 1972). . Blooms looks at it from 3 domains: affective, cognitive and psychomotor(Bloom, Engelhart, Furst, Hill, & Krathwohl, 1956).). Each of these domain levels detail skills and other performance indicators starting with the most basic to complex application of knowledge. Simpson offers a revised version of Bloom’s taxonomy that has 3 domains grouped into seven categories according to the simplest to the most ...

In the article “Do You Identify As a Gamer? Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Gamer Identity” Adrienne Shaw focuses on the impact of the categories of gender, race and sexuality on how people identify themselves as gamers. The core idea of the article is to dig deeper for the explication of the role of race, gender and sexuality as components of the gamer identity construction. Locating her study within the social context that shapes self-awareness, Shaw attempts to outline the gamer identity in the scope of marginalized social groups. Considering the aspect of popularity of games throughout various social, racial ...

ATTENTION GAINER: As I speak, there will be people amongst us who would be checking their phones and if not checking they would be thinking of the one email that needs to be sent or that one application you heard about. Today’s generation is more dependent on technology than any of the generations that existed or have existed before us. We can hardly imagine life without the gadgets around us. Let me prove my point with the following example. SIGNIFICANCE (SOURCE): A Phoenix-based CEO of The J Brand Group, Jenn Hoffman, while giving an interview over breakfast ...

Introduction

The colonization of America was a very violent chapter in American history and had left a scar that is still felt by many Native Americans to this day. Colonization by the very nature of it being a overtaking of land of one group by another is inherently violent as the history of the world’s colonization continues to this day. Since the violence is not a scare that can be removed it is appropriate to spend time measuring the effectiveness of it.

The Effects Today

There is no denying when one looks at the severity of the colonization of America that the ...

In his article “Do Video Games Inspire Violent Behavior” Greg Toppo questions whether violent video games provoke aggression in real life. Toppo discusses different investigations held by various researchers who try to find out how these games may affect young players. The author tries to provide different opinions regarding this problem and draws his own conclusions. All in all, Toppo’s main claim lies in the fact that there are no true evidences that violent video games inspire violent behavior. The author believes that such games may be served as a diagnostic tool as aggressive people are more drawn ...

Microsoft’s Advertising Activities

The core purpose of advertising campaigns is to promote products or services with the purpose of influencing sells growth, but for succeeding in doing so, advertisers must know their target audience and customize the commercial message to fit their communication register (Hofeman and Bateson, 2010). For a company like Microsoft, which benefits of long – lasting worldwide presence through iconic hardware accessories and software programs, communication needed to adjust to different environments and social changes. This is why, there can be observed various trends in Microsoft’s advertising campaigns over the years. Nevertheless, an important aspect that contributes to its ...

Delivery date

Strategic resource management refers to the art and ability to managing and maintaining the capital present in an organization. It entails planning on how to acquire, store, use as well as dispose of the resources an organization uses in the course of doing business. The management is directed towards the achievement of the organizational goals. It helps to deal with quality, commitment, culture and matching resources available to the future needs of an organization. Information technology is one of the resources available for companies to use so as to improve their business. Used in the right way and at ...

The introduction of technology to the world brought about significant changes in how people work. Industries and companies placed huge budgets on manpower and equipment necessary in creating their products or completing their work. At the time, what they received as returns were enough to sustain them though it was quite hectic. Technology made most of the processes easy to complete and automate. On a downside, it affected the job opportunities for most of the employees as it replaced their spots in the different companies. In recent years, the adoption of Information Technology in companies is on an increase ...

The law protects children from exposure to violent materials. It is guided by psychological research that has indicated a relationship between aggression behavior and playing of violent video games (Palo Alto Medical Foundation). Opponents of this view, however, see no scientific connection between existing world problems and violent videos games consumption (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry). The question of whether a violent video game increases aggressive thoughts and angry behaviors is, therefore, an issue of discussion. The purpose of this essay is to come up with ideas that can aid in understanding the debate, and then asking ...

<<Name>> <<Professor Name>> <<Subject>> 1. Summarize each of the readings in the tables below. 2. You may expand the table to accommodate your information. 3. Write in complete sentences using proper grammar and mechanics.

• Unit 1 in the textbook: Introduction and Social Media and Participation o As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple with Ethics o Wireless Charging at a distance, Moves forward for uBeam o The Secret Life of Data in the Year 2020

• Unit 2 in the textbook: Social Media

o What Will Social Media Look Like in the Future? o Licence to Text o The ...

Playing has a pivotal role in the lives of children and adults. There has been significant research on how play influences the lives of the people. This paper focus on the importance of playing, a reflection of a two-hour activity, and response to “Play is more than fun” and “the creativity crisis.” In most cases, rarely would adults go out to play regularly except for occasional times in what most people call entertainment. I was not aware that play, however, simple it may be, has effects on the emotions and the overall health of an individual significantly. Play enhances ...

Develop an initial mental health postarrest assessment for Doe that includes a line of questioning to determine personality type and suicide risk. Personality type should be taken into account in order to determine the psychological context of Doe. This can established through the development of their past circumstances and mental health history. This will help in demonstrating the conditions upon which the criminal action took place. Understanding their past history of mental illness will help to provide insight into this context. Through the establishment of a conceptual framework that can be understood in regards to the history and criminal ...

(First Name Last Name) It is undeniable that modern innovations have catalysed our way of living. As technologies get better, we have difficulties in choosing which brands to trust and gadgets to buy. In the world of computers, the two main contenders are the laptop and tablet. Some of us may still have that good ol’ desktop computer sitting in our homes. During the advent of laptops, we were amazed that computers can really be that handy. Smartphones also paved the way for better communications since the appearance of generic cellular phones by adding productivity applications, camera, music player, ...

There are several health problems that exist in Hawaii and have a negative impact on the community health. One of the main factors that influence health in Hawaii is the access to healthcare itself, as people living on the Hawaii Island have limited access to medical treatment (West Hawaii Today, 2013). This, all healthcare needs of Hawaiians cannot be fully covered, and this is the most significant community health problem that exists in Hawaii. Several factors affect the health of Hawaiian community. The first factor is the physical factor, and it is the size of the local community. According ...

Origins of the First Person Shooter by Alexander R. Galloway highlights the subtle interconnection between the cinematographic technique of the subjective shot and its use in gaming. The author of the article begins with drawing a distinction between the notions of the point of view (POV) and the subjective shot as used in filmmaking. While he deems the first to be more general, aiming at representing the exterior of the character’s standpoint, the latter focuses on “the exact physiological or emotional qualities of what the character would see” (Galloway 41). Illustrating the examples of the subjective shot in ...

COMMUNICATION ACCESS

Mobile computing has grown exponentially in the last few years due to several factors including the growth of service work in Western society and the need for co-operation between many parties in the work force . These factors require increased use of information technology and physical interaction thus leading to the need for mobile computing. Mobile computing devices are a common and it is more common than not to have internet access available on these devices via a wide variety of connection methods. This paper presents the different connection methods, how they work and gives examples of where the various ...

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Introduction After Global Agreement for Trade and Tariff came into existence in the 1990s, the overall supply chain process used in companies changed completely. Companies started sourcing raw materials and finished goods from thousands of miles away to gain cost advantage even though those were available nearby the point of consumption (Kannan and Sasikumar, 2009). Supply chain suddenly became the main differentiating factor between companies. The supply chain process increased the overall goods movement, which increased the greenhouse gas emission enormously. Increased level of demands started generating huge amounts of waste and this became a concern for the governments. ...

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Management Information Systems

Microsoft Corporation is a company that deals with licensing, supporting, and improving a variety of software services and products. The products of Microsoft Corporation include applications for business solutions, tools for software development, online marketing, tools for management server applications, video games, and operating system for phones, servers, computing devices, and other intelligent devices. Furthermore, the company provides Cloud services that provide the consumers with services, software, and content in the Internet through shared computer resources, which can be located in the centralized data center. The company sells and engineer tablets, personal computer, phones, entertainment and ...

E-Business Strategy: Model Characteristics

The case for e-business cannot be overemphasized. In order for companies to perform sustainably in current business ecosystem, key characteristics are required for an integrated strategy. Further, an independent (but integrated) e-business strategy should be in place in order to manage products and/or service more effectively across different online and offline platforms and channels. For current purposes, focus is laid on key characteristics for an e-business strategy. Notably, an effective e-business strategy should cover main areas, namely: micro-targeting, personalization, content innovation, customized browsing experience, channel integration and investment in mobile (Evans). By identifying specific niche markets in an online ...

Tali Berglas-Shapiro

Weizmann Institute of Science Abstract Contemporary science education (at all levels) does not treat students as passive consumers of knowledges, skills, and other educational “products” anymore. Nowadays, learners must be active and productive participants of the educational process. That is why self-regulated learning (SRL) technologies form a very important key component of the contemporary educational system. Technology-enhanced learning environments (TELEs) are important tools mutually used by educators and learners to organize and develop the educational activity in its advanced form. In the present paper, investigating students' difficulties within the transition to the new model of education and acquiring of ...

[Dissertation: Music]

Chapter 1: Introduction: Advances in technological innovation and affordability has revolutionised many aspects of modern society. Perhaps nowhere is this more observable within the entertainment industry than for electronic music. The later part of the 1980s witnessed a boom in the creation of a vast array of original sub-genres; where many pioneers developed and honed new techniques, making extensive usage of new technologies and affordable studio equipment on offer (source?). In the United Kingdom (UK) two such genres that were initially developed during this period were ‘Drum and Bass’ and ‘Jungle’. For these styles of music, an ...

Business Model Interrogation and Development of Sony Group

Abstract The purpose of this study is to discuss the business model and development of Sony Corporation. The first part provided details about the company, its history, and strategies of acquisitions, mergers, and joint-venture that led it to become a huge group. The paper also presented the framework behind the development of its business model and product variation, identified its product portfolio, and financial information. The last part analyzed Sony Corporation’s business architecture and the needed improvements, technological changes, and identified potential ways to help the company reduce operational cost and improve product quality. Business Model Interrogation and ...

[Dissertation: Chapter 3]

Chapter 3: Drum and Bass Creation

3.1 Instruments and MIDI controllers The following are sample of instruments and MIDI controller that are used to integrate a gear containing instruments used for drum and bass creation. A MIDI controller, through MIDI commands aids in the creation of tone for drum and bass. This is created through a generation of MIDI data when one presses a key on the MIDI synthesizer. The keyboard, when connected to a drum machine, can control the device. For instance, a full drum set can be created from the MIDI drum pads. As the result, MIDI controller acts as ...

Impact of Video Games in English Learning

Impact of Video Games in English Learning Technological changes have brought new ideas, software, video games and many other developing applications in computer use. Adults and children are using computers to distract their minds and perform challenging tasks that improves their innovative skills. Children play video games primarily for fun and education. There are different forms of video games that can be found over the internet via YouTube and many other technological sources. Children tend to choose the kind of games meant for their age levels that keep them interested. There are many different kinds of games available. For ...

Netsky and Sasser Worms

The earlier versions of the Windows operating contained several network-based vulnerabilities. On many occasions in the 2000s malicious scripting programs commonly known as worms exploited these vulnerabilities. The most prolific of these worms were Netsky and Sasser Worms. Although these worms were differently functioned, their basic structure was the same. Evidently, both worms shared the same creator in Sven Jaschan. The Netsky worm’s distribution depended on email communications. It was an attachment will be active if opened. Once opened, it would search all the email addresses and dispatch copies of itself to all the addresses. The damage was ...

Ultrabooks vs. Tablet PCs

Ultrabooks are thin, slim, have screen sizes between 11 and 13 inches, but have full size keyboards that are comfortable. They have SSDs and have good battery life and have PC OS such as Windows or Mac OS. A tablet computer, on the other hand is of a tablet’s size, mostly touch-based and may lack a keyboard and runs either Android, iOS or Windows mobile OS.

Similarities: They are both slim and light and are portable and the Ports and connectivity options are also similar.

Differences: The physical keyboard is generally absent in the tablets (though some have attachable keyboards) so the main mode of user interaction is touch, making the interaction tougher for regular applications. They ...

In the past thirty years, humanity has moved into a digital era where billions of people are connected via an ever advancing technology boom. Yousef starts his days by waking up to the sound of the alarm, and listening to the radio while driving his car to work. Then he works on the computer to do some tasks; after that he contacts some people by calling and texting them via Smartphone. In his leisure time, he just passes his fingertip over a screen and sinks into some application to update himself with the latest news headline continuing to use ...

Introduction

There are diverse factors that need to be considered in the field of financial sector or department in any field or jurisdiction. First of all, we should note that financing helps in the determination of the net value of any given firm or country, its position among its competitors, as well as the payment it owes or is owed to and by other firms, states, or individuals. In this article, we shall be looking at the regulatory Guide (RG 247) that provides the ASIC’s interpretation of the s299A that is composed of the Corporation Act of 2001. Consequently, ...

Video games can improve our lives

Introduction A popular segment in modern day options for mass communication is in form of audio visual media and video games form a crucial chunk in it. It has often been criticized about video games that they cast a direct impact on mental health of youths. The given notion is extremely biased and non generic for a very small number of video games as major researches in this field has confirmed that video games result in giving optimistic results for well being of the youths. The current day world has enough evidence to ratify the usage of video games ...

CITGO Petroleum Corporation is a Delaware corporation with its headquarters located in Houston. The CITGO Company deals with refines, transports and markets gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, petrochemicals, lubricants and other petroleum-based industrial products. PDV America owns the CITGO Company, indirectly entirely owned subsidiary of Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA); the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s national oil company. The company has employed 3700 employees. It owns and runs three incredibly intricate crude oil refineries in Lemont, III., Charles, La., and Corpus Christi, Texas. The company owns one of the biggest factories in the nation with a capacity ...

Electronic Arts (EA) has four primary divisions, namely EA games, EA Sports, EA Maxis and EA Al Play. EA Games, the label being analyzed in this paper is the biggest division with the most numerous studio and development teams. The label has action-adventure, role-playing, racing and fighting games in its portfolio (EA, 2015). The primary business level strategy of EA Games is through a vertical complementary strategic alliance because it shares resources and capabilities with other firms through partnerships, licenses and joint ventures. The strategic alliances formed within the company’s value chain allows it to gain competitive advantage. ...

Introduction

Domenico Scarlatti is one of the most well known Italian Baroque composers. He is best known for his work on the keyboard sonatas. It is known that most of his life he worked for the royal families in Spain and France. While working for the royal family in Spain, he was able to compose over 500 sonatas. Dominico Scarlatti’s history and time spent in Spain has influenced his famous sonatas compositions that use the Spanish guitar style.

History of Domenico Scarlatti

Domenico Scarlatti was born on October 26, 1685 in Naples and died on July 23, 1757 in Madrid. It is known ...

Q. 1: Game design involves the application of design and aesthetics to develop a game. Game design is used in the development of casino games, tabletop games, video games and simulations. In some cases, game design is done in a manner that enhances interaction between participants and spectators. Game design has inspired research in probability, optimization theory and economics. Q. 2: Other positions associated with game design include systems design, web developers, computer programmers, project managers, supervisors, and administrators. Game designers work with a team of individuals that share the same dreams and aspirations on game development. Q. 3: ...

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Introduction

Social cognition is a branch of social psychology that defines how people perceive, respond and store information about their surrounding and other people in that environment. This phenomena of social cognition enables people to appropriately understand and decipher the signals of others and to respond accordingly. In a real world game players use and leverage their social cognitive skills to analyze their opponent’s body language and confidence level. Similarly their cognitive skills also assists in team building and better cooperation between the players. While this comes naturally in the real world environment, ...

I must confess that I really liked the way you started your essay. However, you seemed bent upon influencing your readers that you want them to accept your view on the advantages of video games. Video games do have certain advantages; like the on you mentioned about critical thinking and hand-eye coordination. However, it just doesn’t seem right when you say that videogames build teamwork and developing communicative skills. I also find that you have contradicted your own view on the benefit of video games when you mentioned ‘The Call of Duty.’ ...

Video Games and Violence

“We are closed in, and the key is turned, on our uncertainty somewhere, a man is killed or a house is burned and yet there is no clear fact to be discerned.”

-William Butler Yeats, ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’ In order to proceed to the second mission, GTA players must kill their opponents by stabbing or firing at them and for every dead opponent, there is an equivalent point. The developer of GTA rejected the argument because they do not believe that virtual violence leads to actual violence. Psychologists and media scholars are debating whether the video ...

Upgrade Potential and Capacity A desktop has the greatest upgrading potential over both a tablet and a laptop. It is easy to upgrade a desktop because nearly all parts of it can be removed and replaced with better parts. For example, one can increase the ram of a desktop to almost 8 GB ram. Upgrading of a desktop does not affect its performance, but improves its performance and speed. Even though, it is possible to upgrade a laptop, it is not recommendable because some upgrades are likely to affect its performance. On the contrary, one cannot upgrade a tablet.Costs Laptops ...

Abstract

There are so many parents who wonder why their little boy or girl snarled at an elderly person, or snubbed the teacher in class. They cannot grasp why their children feel free to hurt one another or swipe the furniture with anything that resembles a sword. Why does a banana have to turn into a gun? The parents may not realize that while they are sleeping, working or fulfilling birthday fantasies with all the games their kids want, their young angelic kids are splattering blood and guts all over their television screens. They will be rewarded with bragging rights that can be ...

Violent Media is good for kids

For several years, it has been argued that fantasy violence depicted in video games, television shows, or movies have a negative impact on the lives of children. However, other people such as comic writer Gerard Jones have opposing views by arguing that violent media does not affect the life of children. This paper provides an analysis of Gerard Jones's book Violent Media is good for Kids by analyzing the different viewpoints the author used to support his arguments. While the author used an array of examples to support his arguments, it failed to persuade me to believe that violent media ...

Issues and Impacts of Online Social Networking Sites

Issues and Impacts of Online Social Networking Sites Today, in the century of well-developed technology, we all got used to do everything with the help of special machines and computers. Computers play the most significant part in the life of human being. It helps us to do everything quickly and accurately by automating many tasks, which would take several days or months to complete manually, but now they can be done with the click of one button. Comparing with the previous decade, today our life got easier and became more interesting. Computers have changed our life completely. Earlier, ...

Video game is a form of art according to institutional, aesthetic, historical, expressive and representational theories of art. Video games combine the elements of music and narrative fiction. The designers are deeply concerned about aesthetic condition of the images in game similar to the novelists, animators, art directors for film and theater production. Developing the environments in the game require intensive efforts in creating level maps, set details, complexity of visual textures and lighting. From set designs to lighting techniques, video games draw upon the variety of aesthetic experience from ...

Introduction

The term public virtual world is used to describe computer-based simulated environments created to enable the user communicate with the interactive virtual environment via use of an avatar which is a representation of his form in the virtual world environment. Using the avatar the user can be able to manipulate objects in the virtual world as they are capable of perceptual stimuli, he can also be able to interact with the objects and also manipulate them to his desire. Virtual public networks also serve as global networks for communication because they posses the ability to allow multiple users regardless of ...

Electrical machines are found in many places. This paper describes how a computer, an electronic iron, a mobile phone, and a fridge are structured, and work.

Computer structures include; the basic input output system (BIOS), Central processing unit (CPU), Random Access memory (RAM) - temporary storage, the hard disk (permanent storage), communication channel ( cables/wireless), Bus(high speed internal communication), and other ad-on devices. The BIOS stores all the parameters to be input as turn on or turn off devices, flash disks, USB, printers, keyboard, sound cards etc. these parameters are found in the flash memory. The CPU is the processing part ...

The market study on MP3XYZ was prepared for the management team of Global Corporation MusicToGo, which aims at covering a niche of portable MP 3 players. The scope of my research would have been unlimited if taken overall marketing strategy of MusicToGo, therefore I decided to evaluate the possibility of the MusicToGo to compete with Apple iPod in the Netherlands market and find out what features will enable MusicToGo to improve its performance. The core approach lies in the evaluation of Apple and MusicToGo products with regard to their functionalities and price.

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Executive Summary

Macau is a very attractive gaming destination in the Asia Pacific region, just across the border for Hong Kong. This city attracts a large number of tourists and international visitors. It has also seen a rapid growth in establishment of large gaming companies, ever since liberalization for gaming operators in 2002. This must have actually spurred economic growth, and boosted SMEs, which are the economic growth power engines. However, unfortunately this is not the case, primarily because of the intense pressure on manpower, which is contributing to labour turnover in Macau, so much that, almost 30% of the SMEs are facing closure ...

- Introduction to Relevant Literature

This chapter reviews the literature sources which provide relevant information and data for analyzing the chosen topic of applying the marketing mix in three chosen countries on the examples of three companies: Blizzard Entertainment (US), Rockstar North (UK) and Tencent (China). The main area for the collection of academic sources was marketing, as it is directly connected with the topic. Due to the reason that marketing in computer games is not extensively researched, I reviewed the literature on marketing, game industry and some sources about the three chosen ...

ABSTRACT

With the growth in computer networks that are used in organizations, there is a need to have a way in which networks are managed and monitored. This phenomenon is taking shape as more and more companies develop new applications to sustain their networks. There different types of traffic that are found to be traversing computer networks need to be monitored. SNMP management console is one of Network Instruments application that brings cross-platform SNMP standards to the Observer. Network administrators and consultants will find SNMP management tools important in the monitoring, diagnosis and repair of networks. Network monitoring helps in having continued ...

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Should it really be called “addiction”?

When we hear someone’s addicted to games, it doesn’t sound that bad. we picture a person playing 2 or 3 hours a day. But it isn’t that simple. Studies have shown that 10% to 15% of gamers show signs that meet the World Health Organization’s criteria for addiction.

Video game addiction means neglecting education, family, friends, work and school for the sake of a fantasy world. Most of the game addicts do not have a social life. their circle of friends includes virtual people they meet in online game forums.

In some severe cases, gamers actually attend addiction treatment ...