Article One- Games as Art
What I think this article is trying to say is that video games can justifiable be called art. I completely agree that video games are art because they are visual works that can get people to express emotion while playing or have some sort of emotional attachment from the game. For instance a game can be considered a masterpiece if contains a combination of great graphics, game play, and a story line and can get mixed emotions out of gamers. However video games are unique in comparison to other art forms because they are actually interactive so people get more interested and involved in video games. For example, a lot more people today are majoring in graphic design to learn how to develop video games which gets more people exposed to art culture.
Greenwald, Will August 31, 2007 http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9769761-1.html
Article Two- Video Game Violence
In this article Paul Nyhan looks at how parents react to their kids playing violent video games. In his interview with Cheryl Olson, the author of “Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth about Violent Video Games.”, Cheryl said, “For most kids and most parents, the bottom-line results of our research can be summed up in a single word: Relax” I agree with Olson because I feel that most kids ages ten to seventeen can tell the difference between fantasy and reality. I believe kids that commit violent acts are just mentally unstable and those violent acts weren’t in response to video game they played or a movie they watched. People sometimes just get to emotionally attached to video games and they get so into it that they scream and curse and cry when they play it and that can which some people can mistake for violence, but the gamer knows that the game is just that a game.
Nyhan, Paul April 28, 2008 “Video game violence: Do parents overreact?” http://www.seattlepi.com/videogames/360857_videogames28.html
