Essays on Video Game Violence

Almost every child enjoys playing video games as it acts as a source of entertainment. However, as time passed by vicious contents are now being portrayed through gaming that dehumanizes children and encourages in promoting violent behavior. Parents may sometimes struggle in handling severe aggression of their children as it often makes a situation worse….

Consider this scenario: A teenage boy just returned from his friend’s place after a playdate. When the boy’s parents ask him did they have a good time and what did they do together, the teenager smiles with a mischievous glint in his eyes and replies, “Yeah! Josh and I survived a zombie apocalypse, raided a…

A lot of people play video games these days. You can look at people of many and different ages, religions, backgrounds, race, and economic scale. New apps and video games are being created each and every day. This generation meaning millennials and Gen Z are all about new advances and technology. A popular video game…

I know that at least half of this class has at least played one violent video game, like shooting games. Yet have you ever thought of harming innocent people afterwards? Think about this, if you were attacked by somebody who just played Grand Theft Auto; would you be mad at the person who attacked you,…

The article I found interesting is entitled “A Literature Review of Research on video Games, Perception, & identity” by Kathleen Falcon, a student who attends the Fairleigh Dickinson University. In this review she includes a lot of empirical research and she identifies the three main issues in video game research. These issues are attachment &…

This paper will discuss how video games are regulated by the rating system, how violent video games encourage regulations, the positive effects of playing video games, how parents can bond with their children using video games and … Video games have taken the world by storm and introduced many people to the potential of online…

“I know, it’s hard to wrap your head around such a fact of after years of listening to ‘don’t sit too close to the TV, you’ll ruin your eyes,’ or ‘stop wasting your time playing video games—go outside!(https://www.idtech.com/blog/video-games-are-good-for-you)’” Everyone that plays video games has heard these sayings sometime during their life. Most parents are hard…

Introduction In today’s world, advertising is more prominent than it has ever been before. We receive messages in every way possible: mobile phones, newspapers, periodicals, televisions, billboards, bus stops, and so many more ways. However, even with all the advancements to get advertising messages to consumers, there is ever more power in their hands to…

When observing people playing video games, have you ever considered what they might be gaining? Is their seemingly undivided attention to the images on the screen purely for entertainment, or does it serve to provide some higher purpose? When used in recreation videogames can offer a form of psychological release. Additionally, videogames can provide an…

Bang! Pow! Pow! The noise of gunshots echoed through the surround sound speakers as Johnny, a seven-year-old boy, intensely stared at the television set. A bloody mess of dead bodies filled the screen. Although this was one of many video games that Johnny had played that displayed a massive amount of graphic violence, his parents…