In most homes where a pre-teen or teenager resides you can probably find some video games lying around somewhere. Even some adults enjoy sneaking away to play these games. What at first appears as an idle waste of time is now seen in a different light. Video games in education have gained some of the legitimacy that they never enjoyed before.
Over the course of the last 15 years there has been a great amount of debate about how video games are shaping the minds and behavior of young people. Video game addiction has become a prevalent concern, and some researchers suggest impressionable adolescents may be driven to brutality by the violent fantasy world of video…
“Print is out, digital is in.” These few words encapsulates the great shift occurring within the realm of mass media. With the explosive growth of digital content available on the internet, printed media is slowly falling into disfavor by reading audience. In turn, it is forcing mainstream news outlets into rethinking their modus operandi for story telling. One possible solution that has been steadily gaining credibility is the the application of newsgames, video games designed to adhere to journalistic standards.
How newsgames can have a positive impact on audience engagement?
When was the last time you were engaged with a news article? Chances are, those reports will often be left as a mere afterthought. Even if an individual were to be interested about a particular subject, the means available for them to engage further are highly limited. However, a growing trend has begun to change that perspective and that is due to the emergence of newsgames.
A research team from North Carolina State University recently submitted a study for publication in Computers in Human Behavior stating older adults that played video games showed an improvement in health versus non-gamers.
Many people believe the video game console market is dead. In the face of growing mobile and casual games market, some would even go so far to say that traditional games are dead altogether. While we won’t know what the market will shape out to be just yet, there is one thing for certain: there are die-hard loyalists on each side of the spectrum and TechCocktail has recently written about a new startup wants to start rewarding these people.
Wufasta will be partnering with companies to produce branded promotions, reward gamers for completing in-game challenges, and even sponsoring professional completive gamers.
