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there are some two point two billion gamers worldwide almost one in three people regularly play on their smartphone computer or gaming console nevertheless prejudices about gamers and games remain rampant we want to take a close look at the five most prejudiced number one shooter games make you aggressive the assumption is that if you kill other people in the game you'll be more violent in real life but there's no scientific evidence to prove this for example a study by oxford university showed that the contents of a game don't make you aggressive but frustrating game mechanics to experts at hamburg's university clinics say people who play action games do not behave more aggressively in the long run other studies show that playing a lot of violent games can leave you emotionally numb but there is no evidence that violent games make someone more prone to violence so how do our brains really react

when we play shoot us. that's exactly what daphne from the university of geneva wants to find out she has people play first person shooters while hooked up to a magnetic resonance imaging scanner and the results show that in some ways games can lead to structure changes in the brain and in action video game players we know that the structures change and change for the better in the coming better with each other such that for them paying attention is less. well we were surprised by that and activities i was so dim in the eyes by society. really conceived as a tool waste of time could have a positive effect on something as fundamental as how well you take. psychology simona from the monks planck institute has found that playing computer games regularly can even make parts of the brain ground.

good finding on the hippocampus the brain regions affected are the hippocampus and the prefrontal cortex they play a role in spatial orientation like when you're thinking about getting from a to b. so by stimulating these regions to a large extent they grow in volume. does that mean gamey makes a smarter and we should spend endless hours playing. i'm afraid not what our work shows is that you beg me to play about thirty five minutes per day five days a week and you do that regularly the new season has been official effects so you don't have to go into your business and hide the play for hours on end actually that may actually be counter productive so not only what you play but also for how long is important i used to love adventure games like maniac mansion they don't cause aggression but i often forgot the time because the game world was simply too exciting that brings us to prejudice number two. gaming can become addictive

after all you hear about shocking cases like this one. you don't even notice you're getting hooked. and suddenly you're addicted. i only realized that when it was too late. i went from playing four hours a day to eight hours. at some stage i go three days without sleeping all i do is drink smoke cigarettes and play. now he's aged twenty one but for five years he spent endless hours playing operation seven. he lost forty kilos over that period and dropped out of school without passing his final exams. i enjoyed competing against other gamers i wanted

to be better than them it made me feel powerful. i get four to six hours of sleep per night max i was walking around like a zombie. neurobiologists have found out that the gaming addicts brain reacts to a screenshot of his favorite game in a similar way alcoholics brain reacts when he sees a beer when you win the game it gives you a real rush and in order to experience this feeling again and again you just keep on play dr guy an expert on addiction knows just how common this problem is. about one percent are addicted to games that doesn't sound like a huge number but it's comparable to other psychological conditions we've known about for a long time and so gaming can be addictive but does gaming make people. prejudiced number three gamers. but if you look at the big industry events that doesn't seem to be true at all thousands of like minded people come. together at games com

or e-sports events to party and have a good time together in a recent survey three out of five british gamers said they play may lead to keep in touch with their friends my nephew for example met his first girlfriend playing league of legends which like so many games is all about team play take fortnight for example. one of one hundred players and whoever manages to survive wins that's the basic idea behind a popular game fortnight battle royale players can also get together with other gamers and play as a team fifteen year old moritz is one of many four thousand fans he links up with his friends on skype while playing. the old fault. it's not the people playful night there are plenty of gamers it's ready fun. it seems many would agree fortnight is currently one of the most popular computer

games in the world. in its heyday more than ten million gamers were playing fortnight at the same time. the games left a lasting cultural legacy with many people even uploading videos of themselves imitating fortnights famous dances many of these clips went viral my favorite. or something like this so gaming is all about community but who actually plays prejudice number for the game is made i mean they did and hostile to women in twenty fourteen may have gamers set up the game a gate hash tag and started to arrest female game designers online this went on for months and there were even rape and death threats things appear to have improved since then but many games still seem to show women in a strange light. it's pretty common to see female computer game characters

portrayed as scantily clad sex objects whatever their role in the gang. figures in the male dominated gaming scene. most major gains are still developed for an all male audience twenty percent of game developers are women. this is because many of the jobs require technical qualifications we've made a mistake all these years of telling girls and young women forget about tech jobs you're not cut out for this kind of work. this way they don't even consider this line of work and rooted out from the start. that the number of female does not justify this discrepancy in fact estimates indicate that there are just as many female as. men tend to prefer the big blockbuster games. casual and mobile.

phones it's a fact women. play games and that's why they should be developing games too they could help create games that appeal to women. the latest installment of the tomb raider adventure game series in the case that things are changing in older versions the main protagonist lara croft used to support a very skimpy outfits. but now she's a real adventure as with much more modest clothing. more and more games now feel to complex female characters as mike arrives in zero dorn where female protagonist alloy grows up in a matriarchal society. or uncharted the last legacy with two female lead characters at the heart of a gripping action adventure story. both games have sold millions of copies so it

seems that games don't need sexy female lead characters to appeal to consumers. so gamers simply love exciting stories and intelligent as attainment or does our fifth prejudice hold true prejudice number five games are a total waste of time is gaming just a waste of time and money well there are plenty of examples to show that isn't true . school kids in atlanta georgia are playing the educational class craft game it resembles a typical fantasy game and it's designed to help teachers and encourage students to participate in class. it changed it dramatically because it made me a participant with my students i am others their teacher i'm their game master i control the fun of the classroom. school children can select different avatars in class craft and work together as teams they solve virtual challenges and collect

points they can then use them to alter their avatars or move up to a higher level that motivates them to keep learning. class craft does it make it seem like i think. you're probably going to better. and these third graders are using the fun educational software dreambox to help them solve math problems it features game elements and illustrates real world applications. i like it because it. shows like. the math problems grow more difficult as pupils improve can't wake kids receive the challenges that are best suited to their abilities. so is there any truth to the most common factor this is about gaming doesn't make people aggressive there is no evidence to show that shooters make anyone go on the shooting spree but gaming can

be addictive just like alcohol and other drugs and what about the claim that game as. well that's just nonsense but when it comes to gender equality and sexism there's still room for improvement and is gaming a waste of time. that depends entirely on what you play so what do you think about gaming let us know on d w dot com on our new you tube channel where you'll find explain as more about the latest tech trends gadgets and much more see you next week and goodbye from the.

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