Games are good for us?
Do you agree with this statement? Some parents may think that playing games is a waste of time and seems to be a mindless form of entertainment. However, according to games industry experts, computer games in fact can promote problem-solving and team-building in the players.
Games such as counter-strike and half-life looks straight-forward in which we just shoot and kill each enemy with a different arsenal of high-tech weapons. That is what I thought too. However, studies of players and teams are actually showing that these games are much more complex than many people suspect. Professor Talmadge Wright and colleagues at Loyola University, Chicago, have spent hours studying Counter-Strike culture by taking part in games, interviewing players and reviewing text files of in-game banter. Prof Wright agreed that Counter-Strike is about much more than just gunplay and racking up skills. In fact, the strategy and tactics used by these regular players and teams, are being likened to chess, with trust and co-operations generated within a team environment reportedly giving rise to strong communities and friendship.
So does game only bring advantages for grown men? As a matter of fact, Video games also have many benefits to children which most of us never even think of. In some ways, video games also helped to promote good eye-hand coordination, problem solving skills, critical thinking and competition. There is always competition in a video game, whether it be against the computer, another player or your own self. Competition is always healthy in urging us to do our best and succeed. Critical thinking skills are also essential in school as well as problem solving skills. Video games are also beneficial in introducing children to computers because as we know, there are many educational games out there in the market.
So have the more positive aspects of games and gaming communities been overshadowed by their continual association with the rise in crime and violence? There has been a lot of controversy about how bad video games are for children, in regards to violence, and general obsession with playing. However, Dr Judy Robertson, of Edinburgh University,had expressed that some children had told her that playing violent games in fact did not result in violence in real life, but it is a way for them to get rid of their frustrations, so instead of taking out their anger on people, they take things out on the characters in the computer games characters.
So is it time that the games deserve acknowledgement that it actually helps to develop the characters in us, or is this just an excuse for the grown men or children to play all day non-stops. Of course, there has to be some limits or moderations. If we found out that our children or friends are spending too much time with their faces stuck to the television the whole day or playing games has turned into somekind of obsession for them that they never eat or study, then it is probably too much, so it is good to set some limits to ensure that there are some balances between the real and virtual lifes.
Games such as counter-strike and half-life looks straight-forward in which we just shoot and kill each enemy with a different arsenal of high-tech weapons. That is what I thought too. However, studies of players and teams are actually showing that these games are much more complex than many people suspect. Professor Talmadge Wright and colleagues at Loyola University, Chicago, have spent hours studying Counter-Strike culture by taking part in games, interviewing players and reviewing text files of in-game banter. Prof Wright agreed that Counter-Strike is about much more than just gunplay and racking up skills. In fact, the strategy and tactics used by these regular players and teams, are being likened to chess, with trust and co-operations generated within a team environment reportedly giving rise to strong communities and friendship.
So does game only bring advantages for grown men? As a matter of fact, Video games also have many benefits to children which most of us never even think of. In some ways, video games also helped to promote good eye-hand coordination, problem solving skills, critical thinking and competition. There is always competition in a video game, whether it be against the computer, another player or your own self. Competition is always healthy in urging us to do our best and succeed. Critical thinking skills are also essential in school as well as problem solving skills. Video games are also beneficial in introducing children to computers because as we know, there are many educational games out there in the market.
So have the more positive aspects of games and gaming communities been overshadowed by their continual association with the rise in crime and violence? There has been a lot of controversy about how bad video games are for children, in regards to violence, and general obsession with playing. However, Dr Judy Robertson, of Edinburgh University,had expressed that some children had told her that playing violent games in fact did not result in violence in real life, but it is a way for them to get rid of their frustrations, so instead of taking out their anger on people, they take things out on the characters in the computer games characters.
So is it time that the games deserve acknowledgement that it actually helps to develop the characters in us, or is this just an excuse for the grown men or children to play all day non-stops. Of course, there has to be some limits or moderations. If we found out that our children or friends are spending too much time with their faces stuck to the television the whole day or playing games has turned into somekind of obsession for them that they never eat or study, then it is probably too much, so it is good to set some limits to ensure that there are some balances between the real and virtual lifes.
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