The Growing Player Driven Economy of Video Games.

In the digital age where video games are common and easily accessible by anyone with a phone, game console, tablet or computer gives rise to player communities that propagate themselves much like communities/societies in the real world. Video…

Advertisements in the Gaming Industry

On Thursday we had a group of presenters in the class that discussed video games from different perspectives based on…

It’s Time to Regulate E-sport Gambling

With as popular as video games have become, the rise of e-sports should not surprise anyone. But with the rise of e-sports, has also come the rise of teenagers and other viewers gambling on e-sport games and even turning into serious gamblers, which is a serious…

The Inclusion Dilemma and The High Stakes Gamble

During my reading of Chess, Evans & Baines “What Does a Gamer Look Like? Video Games, Advertising, and Diversity” the authors explore the gender and diversity gap of the game industry and how that is reflected on the advertising mechanics for…

Blog Post #4

Kerry McGlynn

Blog Post #4

The way people understand the video game industry and perceive the people who play video games has changed over the duration of the industry drastically. People now understand that video games have many positive aspects that come with…

Tom’s best blog post

Given this opportunity I would like to talk more about how video games are advertised and how the video games cover can be more appealing to different people. Early video games rarely ever had women as character, this started to change in the mid-2000’s. Explained in one of the reading…

Tom’s Friends Blog post!!!!

Video games are not easily sold; there is a lot of marketing that goes into making and selling a video game. When thinking about marking you think about what would people buy; why would that person even consider buying that game. When speaking about marketing, you have to think…