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 * My Lab Assignment #1**

http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/editorial.html


 * Response...**


 * ======Espen Aarseth in his “first issue of the first academic, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to computer game studies” discusses the differences of old mass media (TV shows, novels and movies) and new mass media (computer games). From the first computer game, Space War, to all the different categories of games that are out now, the existence of computer games has been around for decades. He is largely in favour of game studies and thinks that we should accept it as something positive and experiment with it.======
 * Aarseth describes game studies; “It seems clear that these games, especially multi-player games, combine the aesthetic and the social in a way the old mass media, such as theatre, movies, TV shows and novels never could.” It explains how computer games help people interact through creative involvement and social skills built through multi-player use. Insists that games help with cognitive and fine motor skills that reading a book or plain text could not do.
 * ======With all these positives surrounding game studies, there are also many debates and arguments pertaining around game studies and its negative effects. Negatives include addiction, isolation, anti-social behavior and even reinforces world views from games played. It is because of these negative arguments that many educational institutions have not used games as a sense of learning in their curriculum so far.======
 * ======All and all, I am a believer that game studies would be a great and useful course used in our education system. Video games are such a social phenomenon now that it is essential to learn about the effects of it and for those to learn the right way to use it, instead of abusing it. Video games can be fun, but useful at the same time. Whoever said learning can’t be fun is a liar!======