Over the past decade, the video game community has come under scrutiny for the promotion of violent games and indecent acts. They have been attributed as the linking causality of atrocious mass shootings, cyber bullying and more. By examining the complexities of video game development and genre and using frameworks such as Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics with a new fourth addition of nurture, the communities can be recognised as a force of good if fostered correctly by a game’s developers. Read more [...]
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Online
gaming is where people, connected over the internet participate in a competitive
or collaborative environment to achieve a task set by a game, often enhanced
with verbal and/or visual communication (Maher, 2016). Although, the online gaming
community is not restricted to the online collaboration of multi-player games, it
also includes individuals who play single player games who interact over online
platforms such as social media (Mohd Affendi, 2008). Online gaming can be considered a
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This paper will argue that the hyperreality, which is produced by the online gaming community leads to addictive disorder behaviour among adolescents and young adult gamers. Here the particular focus is on the massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) which is an online gaming community platform. Scholarly research will be used to identify this problem through the motives of adolescents who are in the online Read more [...]
Rebecca Flynn
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This paper will discuss the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game World of Warcraft and its ability to allow for community interaction online. I argue that certain features of the game such as its character creator, guild and social systems and the option of anonymity make the game the highly social place it is today. These communities have become as popular as they are through encouraging users to fabricate an identity and become fully immersed in the online Read more [...]
Abstract: Online gaming attracts people from all over the world and is highly appreciated by those that are involved with it, much to the point that it is even considered a professional sport. This paper looks to examine how the features of online gaming create opportunities for new connections and enables people to socialise, over a preconceived idea of promoting isolation. With the teamwork-based play and fandoms created around these games, people are more inclined to interact and form further Read more [...]