Tag: video games
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COVID-19, Video Games and Gaming Addiction
Online gaming during the COVID-19 pandemic has seen a massive boom in play and popularity. The video game industry is likely ecstatic about the 9.3% increase in revenue from last year. Esports, which is practically ready-made for many disappointed sports fans, is on track to surpass every professional sports league besides the NFL in viewership…
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Apex 2015: A Tournament That Almost Didn’t Happen
By Karl Evers-Hillstrom Apex 2015 – The Salty Suite from SUNY New Paltz on Vimeo. The best part of the tournament had to be the Salty Suite, where hundreds of avid Super Smash Bros. Melee fans watched top players play out grudge matches. APEX 2015 was the biggest Super Smash Bros. tournament of all…
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Media Ethics: Military Video Games
Madelinerose Kossmann, Tyler Brown, Dane Lewis evaluate the potential effects military based video games have on those who play them, and whether or not they were intended by the producers. Bryce Kristall and Sarah Painter evaluate a sexually influenced free-world video game. Click here. Katherine Bunster and Ella Graffin look at Disney princesses. Click here.
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Media Ethics: Tropes vs. Women in Video Games
Media Ethics videos were produced by students in professor Howard Good’s fall 2012 Media Ethics class. Groups observed issues facing the media today and conducted ethical evaluations of topics such as sexism in video games, same sex marriage announcements and shaping the image of the Syrian president. Check out these critiques and decide where you…
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NPC’s Newest Contest: The Omni Tournament
This year’s New Paltz Convention (NPC) hosted a new kind of tournament taking place over the two-day event. The Omni Tournament was aimed at unifying all the gamers in an overall points system to determine a winner. Devised by the leaders of the New Paltz Gaming Society, the organization behind NPC, all participants were given…