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Gaming With Ballweg
Mark Ballweg
Issue date: 4/29/09 Section: Culture
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Hello fellow gamers of Villanova. Can you believe another year is over already? It's going too fast I tell ya. But I can't get sentimental yet. I still have one more year here, which means you all get another year of "Gaming With Ballweg." For the seniors leaving, well, you will be missed. If you enter the field of video games, please try not to replicate the mistakes I've harped on these past few years. Okay, enough with that. You know the drill by now. Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Microsoft's Xbox 360 are the big ones, so let's get started.
Rock Band: LEGO or Beatles?
Let's be honest for a second folks. Rock Band is the newest trend sweeping platforms and gathering everyone's attention. Plus, it's fun. Recently, two new additions have been announced for the franchise, both due out in the 2009 holiday season. The first, "LEGO Rock Band," has a more family-oriented focus. Personally, I don't care, because "Kung Fu Fighting" and "Final Countdown" have already been disclosed as included in the game. If LEGOs are too childish for you, Beatles Rock Band is set to come out at around the same time.
"This game will take you on a journey from the Beatles first album Please Please Me until the last album at Abbey Road," said Apple Corps CEO Jeff Jones. I won't lie, I'm excited about that too, so long as they use original tracks and not the covers some of the other games have used. But from the sounds of it, the game will access to the band's entire catalog, which is incredible to say the least.
1 of 12 Addicted To Games
Here's an interesting figure for you. A new study out of Iowa State University and the National Institute on Media and the Family (NIMF) has found that one out of every twelve young gamers (ages eight to eighteen) show signs of addiction to video games. Those classified as addicted showed signs of "using video games to escape from problems or bad feelings," or "lying to family and friends about video game usage." Yes, I could come up with reasonable, non-game related excuses for those statements, but none say it better than Harvard's Dr. Cheryl Olson, who critiqued the methodology: "…Lying to your spouse about blowing the rent money on gambling is a very different matter from fibbing to your mom about whether you played video games instead of starting your homework."
Hello fellow gamers of Villanova. Can you believe another year is over already? It's going too fast I tell ya. But I can't get sentimental yet. I still have one more year here, which means you all get another year of "Gaming With Ballweg." For the seniors leaving, well, you will be missed. If you enter the field of video games, please try not to replicate the mistakes I've harped on these past few years. Okay, enough with that. You know the drill by now. Nintendo's Wii, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Microsoft's Xbox 360 are the big ones, so let's get started.
Rock Band: LEGO or Beatles?
Let's be honest for a second folks. Rock Band is the newest trend sweeping platforms and gathering everyone's attention. Plus, it's fun. Recently, two new additions have been announced for the franchise, both due out in the 2009 holiday season. The first, "LEGO Rock Band," has a more family-oriented focus. Personally, I don't care, because "Kung Fu Fighting" and "Final Countdown" have already been disclosed as included in the game. If LEGOs are too childish for you, Beatles Rock Band is set to come out at around the same time.
"This game will take you on a journey from the Beatles first album Please Please Me until the last album at Abbey Road," said Apple Corps CEO Jeff Jones. I won't lie, I'm excited about that too, so long as they use original tracks and not the covers some of the other games have used. But from the sounds of it, the game will access to the band's entire catalog, which is incredible to say the least.
1 of 12 Addicted To Games
Here's an interesting figure for you. A new study out of Iowa State University and the National Institute on Media and the Family (NIMF) has found that one out of every twelve young gamers (ages eight to eighteen) show signs of addiction to video games. Those classified as addicted showed signs of "using video games to escape from problems or bad feelings," or "lying to family and friends about video game usage." Yes, I could come up with reasonable, non-game related excuses for those statements, but none say it better than Harvard's Dr. Cheryl Olson, who critiqued the methodology: "…Lying to your spouse about blowing the rent money on gambling is a very different matter from fibbing to your mom about whether you played video games instead of starting your homework."
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