Article: Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Video and computer games.(testing video ...
Reason;  January 1, 2000 ;     481 words ...Are you really good at video and computer games? Then the New Zealand government needs you. Under law, each game sold in that nation must be rated by censors for sex and violence ...

Article: SMART COMPUTER GAMES PROFESSOR SHOWS HOW PLAYING ...
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  February 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Nobody ever accused computer games of being too educational ... his new book, How Computer Games Help Children Learn ... Gee, author of What Video Games Have To Teach Us About ... between education and computer games. For the last few ...

Article: Lethal recreations: how violent computer games can ...
The Independent - London;  January 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... linked to violent video games. Harris and ... the most brutal computer games money can buy ... between violent computer games and real-life ... that violent video games might indeed ... on the sort of computer games that can be sold ...

Article: Video games 'not good for learners' ; Thousands of ...
Express & Echo (Exeter UK);  June 13, 2008 ;     604 words ... ... skills because they have grown up with computer games. Switching from a game controller ... carried out by Young Marmalade, playing computer games hones quick-fire reactive skills ... ensure the intensive use of driving computer games should be avoided while a teenager ...

Article: Top Class: Video games: What's bad? IN ASSOCIATION ...
Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England);  October 16, 2008 ;     440 words ...WE looked at the down side of computer games. Video games have been blamed for lots of things and we looked at what and why. It has been seen as a boy's activity for a long time, but ...

Article: Computer-game designers: kids forever, with adult worries. ...
EDN;  April 6, 1989 ;     700+ words ... ... think again. Designing computer games--or video games for arcades and TV sets ... NH-based publisher of computer games. "If someone develops ... score. The idea to design computer games came to Ratcliff after he ...

Video games.(Behavioral Health Advisor 2007)
Clinical Reference Systems;  May 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... destruction. Research suggests that video games encourage more aggressive ... games available. Educational computer games tap the motivational power ... If you have a choice, buy computer games instead of video games. * Try to encourage a variety ...