Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Artifact 1: Video games
Welcome to the video game nation; one of the modern day artifacts that repersent artificial world that we live is the video game industry. Between the Xbox, the playstation3, the Wii and other electronic devices video games are not just for kids anymore.In 2009 the video industry made over five billion dollars making it one of the top forms of entertainment. Gone are the days of 8-bit graphics and simple text story now game full inactive movies with compelling stories and complex characters that will keep you plugged-in for hours,the average gamers is 30 years old and 40% of gamers are women. Video games have always be the perfect way to escape troubles of reality, allow you to have a different identity in some games you can have a compelt like the adult version of “let’s pretend”. The more inactive these games are the more we want to play. Now we they are games where you whole body can be the control. As developers continue push the lines of technology and reality we are will continue to be plugged-in.
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