Rabia+Siddiqui

The article, “Computer Game Studies, Year One”, by Espen Aarseth discusses how computer games and video games are being studied more in the 21st century than ever before. Games were seen as a leisure activity before this time and were not taken seriously because people were not as virtually involved as they are now while playing games. Other things were taken more seriously such as reading and writing because people thought it had a closer connection with academics. 2001 marked “year one” of computer games in academics. This has sparked a lot of debate as people do not know where we are going with it. Studying computer games is so important because now the games can involve the participation of the players and since it is virtual it affects the people playing them. Since the players can interact with one another, they create a whole world within the games. It is interesting to research why people are so addicted to video games. Some people have died because of playing a certain games for days straight. Though research has already been done on this topic, it should further be researched in depth more answers can be found.