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You’d get to use the very latest techniques available – and in computer game development, as in other areas of computer animation and design, new ideas and techniques are becoming available all the time. When Andrew Adamson directed the 2005 movie of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, he said he was using techniques simply not available just a few years before. The same is true of computer game design. Every year, games are more realistic, more innovative, more gripping to play.

You might love to play computer games but never imagined you could design them. After all, playing games takes no special skills, but developing them surely takes many skills and lots of know-how, right? True; but you can acquire those skills through distance learning.

With distance learning, you can take game courses from the comfort of your own home. That’s a lot easier, and a lot cheaper, than attending a college to study computer game development.

It’s also likely to be more use to you. Because it is such a fast-moving industry, conventional college courses can be at a real disadvantage. They can be effectively out of date before they’ve even been introduced to the syllabus. A home-based study, on the other hand, can be updated far more easily, keeping you abreast of developments as they happen.

Another big advantage of home-based game courses is, if you choose the right one, it will be put together by games developers for future games developers. In other words, it will have been designed by people who have been trained up in the industry and know exactly what games companies are looking for.  Read more...

There’s nothing better during the day, to just sit down and relax by having your favorite snack beside you while you start playing your favorite console games, whatever is your favorite one (Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Wii, etc) or even you favorite handhelds (PSP, Nintendo DS, etc).

If you like video games like me, then you’ll want to know the benefits of playing console games.  I know that many people would dream that; if they could make money playing video games that would be a dream turn into a reality.  Imagine that, getting paid for playing video games while you are sitting at home or when you are in the road.

I have great news for you, that dream I mention is not a dream anymore but a reality, because you can get paid by playing your console games. The benefits of playing console games and getting paid can be accomplished by being a game tester. A game tester is a gamer that has the responsibility of trying games from different companies, because these companies need to make sure their games are top quality and the best rated.  Game testers run an important role on the games that are going to be released, because by giving their opinion they can make sure that the games meet their standards.

Now is it time for you benefit from playing console games and making that dream a reality. You are going to have the chance to try out the games before they come, you would get paid by just having fun and the best thing in your contribution to the gaming community, because you’ll be responsible from making sure that we have top quality games in the market.

A few years back, computer games became a hit all over the world especially among kids and teenagers. Instead of playing tag or any kinds of sports outside with the sun?s rays shining down on their healthy and tan bodies, youngsters now prefer to stay inside the house, slouched on a couch while playing computer games. Sometimes, children do not want to go outside and interact with ?real people? and neglect their families, studies or jobs because they are too busy with their ?virtual? lives. They do not want to be disturbed most of the time and they tend to hide inside their virtual shell. They are irritable and they shrink their duties. Can this be called computer games addiction?

There are debates going on about computer games addiction. Despite researches about the topic, it is not yet clear whether it is a psychological disorder or not. Some experts say that playing computer games could make one addicted to it but right now, it is not considered as a mental disorder. However, there is a possibility that it may be considered as a mental disorder come year 2012.

Being addicted to computer games is the same as being addicted to other things such as alcohol or drugs. It could also be compared to compulsive gambling. However, addiction to computer games is much more related to youngsters than other kinds of addiction.

Last year of April, a survey was conducted and it found out that around 8.5% of the children and teens that play computer games are already ?clinically addicted? to computer games.

Computer games that are especially addictive are the ?massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs).  Read more...