video games

Video games
In recent times, attention has been placed on the influence of violent video games on the aggressive behavior of individuals; some scholars believe that video games increase aggression amongst children in particular. Although many theories that have came out regarding the influence of violent video games, the debate continues to be divided between those who claim its destructive nature and others who claim that videogames cannot be solely blamed for the aggressive behavior expressed by young people. Violent games are not the cause of children having bad behavior. Second to the movie industry, video games or the electronic game industry is on a rapid development with billions of dollars made. Among them, categories such as Point-and-Shoot, RPG (Role-playing game), RTS (Real Time Strategy) games and some others are often branded too violent for their violent acts and bloody, gore scenes. Generally, many people in Canada and the United States believe that media violence, a category which violent games fall into is a major cause of violent crime.
 Is it possible that children learn more than just hand eye coordination when they help Mario rescue Princess Peach in the Mario Bros game. Children can benefit from playing video games. Video games can help you with your motor skills and your hand eye coordination by the aiming and shooting at an object, they refine your fine motor skills by coordinating the movement of their fingers, and their spatial skills. The method of repetition as they play the game is reinforcing to their learning pattern and the children are likely to become addicted to these games as they continue to play them. When children are playing video games they are actually identifying themselves to the characters and they tend to role-play when they interact with other children. Video games have come a long way since they first came out. Nowadays you can play games that can help you learn math and other kinds of learning games that get...