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There are tens of thousands of websites offering free online games for those who want to have some fun online or find friends online. Don’t believe me? Make a simple search through your favorite search engine and you’ll see the vast amount of websites offering free online games. Finding friends through online games is easy and simple because you get to understand each other while playing games and connect with each other through the website’s chat or communicate function available right there in the website.

Although not all online games website requires you to sign up in order to play their online games, some websites do require a simple sign-up. The information that you input into the online games website will become your member’s profile. Other members will be able to view your profile. Your likes, dislikes, favorite games, favorite movies, location (not address, please. Never enter your complete address online, anywhere), and personal characteristics will help you find friends through online games.

Engaged in a competitive battle with each other, you are in a better position to gauge the kind of person that your opponent is, for instance, is he/she an aggressive person? Is he/she a strategically-minded person who is capable of planning everything from scratch? What is his/her favorite character and how does he/she use that online game character to his/her benefit?

The reason why finding friends through online games is easy is because there are forums and chat rooms that online game fans can use to connect, share tips, communicate, make alliance, and chat with online. They share a common interest, a common goal...and the online games that they like become the foundation for their friendship. Not only do they battle it out playing online games but they essentially turn into friends after chatting and communicating with each other.

It’s also safer finding friends through online games. Because the common interest is online games, basically, they just want to have some fun online and not lurk around endangering the lives of others. Although we should still be careful about revealing too much of ourselves online, we generally feel safer when we make friends through online games.


You not only make new friends through online games, you can also connect with and play online games with your friends without having to visit an internet café. Even if your friends have gone to college or are working elsewhere in the world, you can still log on at the same time and enjoy a couple of hours of fun, unbridled fun through online games.

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If you are old enough to remember the early days of computer gaming you know there were a lot of great games that were fun because of the exceptional gameplay and not just the graphics. Gaming started to become a little more popular in the 90s once people started buying computers. In the early 90s games like Maniac Mansion, X-com 1, and Civilization were extremely hot because of their addictive unique gameplay. Today gaming is mainstream and marketed towards a mass audience. In order to market to everyone, many games these days focus on the graphics and special effects rather than unique gameplay. You see many games that seem to be carbon copies of each other with slightly different twists.

These days, a lot of games try to be as realistic as possible and have the most textures and polygons jammed in to wow your eyes. In order to market to everyone, many games these days focus on the graphics and special effects rather than unique gameplay. Although there is nothing wrong with a game with beautiful graphics, once the novelty of the graphics runs out, the gameplay is what keeps you playing. You see many games that seem to be carbon copies of each other with slightly different twists. There are a few games like Halo 2 where the developers obviously spent a lot of time fine tuning to make sure the gameplay was as enjoyable as possible. With Halo 2, the two things that give it an edge in my opinion is the fact that the movement of players is slower than most games and the weapons are highly balanced. Also, rather than throwing tons of multiplayer maps at the player, the developers focused on making a limited number of quality maps.

Freeware games are an option for people on a small budget who value gameplay over graphics. A freeware game is simply a game that is completely free with no fees attached. Freeware developers usually don’t have the million dollar 3d engines to run their games so they must make the games as fun as they can without all the bells and whistles of retail games. These developers make games simply for the love of making them and sometimes come up with some unique and quality games that are definitely worth a look. Especially considering that these games are completely free. These games span all the categories of retail games from Massively Multiplayer to 3d First Person Shooter. Some companies also release production quality games as freeware because they decide not to put the game into production or as promotion.


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Gaming by America's youth has been accused of contributing to everything from school shootings to the obesity epidemic. These accusations, however, lack a key piece of information: the actual role played by gaming in the typical young person's life.

Results of a survey of American adolescents have appeared in the June edition of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, and they paint what is likely to be a reassuring picture for those willing to listen: less than half of adolescents are gamers, and they spent a small enough time gaming that it plays a minimal role in their lives. But don't expect the mainstream media to report this. Instead, coverage so far is leading with the more sensational headline, "Video Games Cut Into Teens' Reading, Studying." The truth is anything but.

The study obtained data by having about 1,500 representative adolescents in an existing survey population complete 24-hour time-use diaries, which provided detailed descriptions of their activities on randomly chosen days. The researchers found that 36 percent of adolescents played video games, and that there's a stark split along gender lines: 80 percent of those gamers were boys. Typical use was about an hour of gaming a day during the week and an hour and a half on weekends (females played less than males).

The authors then compared the gaming population to the non-gamers on a set of five activities: interactions with parents and with friends, reading, homework, and sports. They controlled for basic demographic issues, such as adjusting figures on the time spent with parents according to the hours the parents worked; student times were adjusted based on the hours they worked or spent in school.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the results was how little an effect gaming had on adolescents. Hours at the console had no link to time spent in sports, with the exception of a minor drop for boys during weekends (where each hour of gaming lead to 8 minutes less time on sports). Even some potentially disturbing figures seem minor when examined in detail. For each hour spent gaming during the week, the time that boys spent reading dropped by 30 percent. This would be problematic except for the fact that boys only spent an average of eight minutes reading on a typical weekday.

Instead of turning kids into loners, gaming largely fell in line with general trends of social interactions. Although there was some variability between the sexes, children who gamed with their friends generally spent more time with friends in every other activity. A similar trend held with parents, in that children who had fewer interactions with their parents in general were less likely to game with their parents, as well.

The strongest effect seen in the study was related to homework. In this case, homework and gaming were unrelated in boys; the same trend held for girls during the week. But, on weekends, each hour girls spent gaming was correlated to 13 fewer minutes spent on homework, a drop of 34 percent. Still, the authors caution that this link does not indicate a drop in academic effort; they note that it's entirely possible that gamers organize their time better. Again, this important observation has been ignored.

Overall, the survey suggests that, far from being endemic in youth culture, video games play a significant role in the lives of only a minority of US children, most of them male. Although there were some figures that might suggest that gaming displaced academic activities, such as reading and homework, the total time spent on these pursuits was so small that minor effects were magnified. If people are concerned about the lack of reading done by adolescents, the fact that non-gamers spend only eight minutes a day reading should be a far larger concern than the fact that gaming causes that figure to drop by a little more than two minutes.

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A team at East Carolina University's Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, underwritten (but not directed to find particular answers) by casual publisher PopCap Games, set out to answer that very question - using the power of science.

Two members of the team, Carmen V.Russoniello, Ph.D., L.P.C., L.R.T., B.C.I.A.C., and Jennifer M. Parks, CTRS, presented the group's findings, expanding on initial reports, during this year's Games For Health conference in Baltimore.

Russoniello has been studying the psychological effects of recreational activity for 20 years, making the subject of this survey particularly in line with his professional interests. "I'd probably have done the study even if they hadn't underwrote it, just out of interest," he admitted.

The researcher was sure to note that that this study only begins to delve into the topic. "This is a pilot, exploratory study," he said. "We went in not knowing what to expect." Added Parks, "No one has done a study like this before."

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For example, Bejeweled 2 caused a general decrease in physical stress among subjects, while Bookworm Adventures' effect on the same statistic was more pronounced in males. Bookworm Adventures also had a significant positive effect on emotional balance among those younger than 25 years of age, but less of an effect on those older than 25.

That age divide was even more pronounced when testing subjects' confusion level - confusion was significantly reduced among under-25 subjects after playing all three games, whereas confusion level remained insignificantly affected for those over 25.

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Interestingly, females saw a significant decrease in emotional balance after playing Bejeweled 2, whereas males had an increase in that area. All three games reduced anger levels by some amount, but males saw a greater effect after playing Bejeweled 2, while females saw a greater effect after playing Peggle. Both games had a more significant effect in anger reduction on those under 25.

All three games, particularly Peggle and Bookworm Adventures, decreased depression in subjects by significant amounts, up to 45%. The effect was more positive among men.

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After the main presentation, the group announced it has now received a grant to do further study examining activity levels on Wii as well as cognitive activity of sickle cell anemia patients playing PopCap games, measuring mood and pain. Longer term-effects will be examined.

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ED. - We thought the issue of animated violence in computer and video games would be an interesting topic of discussion for a 14 year old to delve into. So. Here it is. An opinion from Nick Honeywell, a 14 year old gamer from England.

Oh deary me, what is the world coming to these days? You can't go far without hearing someone connect violence to computer games and TV programs.

"Stop your children playing Doom!" the worst of the critics yell, "It will turn them into murdering psychopaths!" Thats the kind of bad press the games industry can do without.

True, you kill people in Doom. True, you pull out spinal cords in Mortal Kombat II. True, you beat people up in countless other games ... but does any of this have any lasting effect on children, or other people?

The ELPSA monitor man panel on the back of boxes in England was a good idea, but it was doomed to failure because it was rushed by the government threat of putting legal ratings on games. Even though a few big companies used this system, it was ususally in a small panel on the back of the box, so it was easily missed.

I feel that many people are giving a biased view about violence in computer games. They claim it will turn people into homicidal monsters who want to actually do the violence they see in Doom for real. Now that is a load of tosh. Throughout history there have been many people with violent tendencies, but did they have computers? Did Hitler play Doom? Had Genghis Kahn even played Mortal Kombat II? The answer of course, is no. There are some people who, just turn violent without the influence of computer games. What evidence do we have that games make people violent? Has anyone been in court for shooting 12 people with a sawn-off shotgun, and then said in his defence that is was "because I played Doom, and I felt like doing it in real life."? No.

Of course, people have tried to claim that even though there is currently no evidence of violence caused by games, there will be when 14 year olds grow up after living their teenage years playing violent games. Seeing as I and my friends are 14, I asked them what they thought. The general view was,

"Violent games will not make normal people into psychopaths. True, people like playing on Mortal Kombat II which has scenes of graphic violence, but it is only a game! No-one (unless they are mentally unstable), will try to re-enact Doom or Mortal Kombat II."

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I do agree that it is the parents right to be worried about what their children are playing, and it is their right to know as much about the game their child wants to buy, but computers are different from, say ... drugs. Drugs harm people, games do not. (unless you play for a prolonged time).

This article is Copyright (C) 1994 by Nick Honeywell for Game Bytes Magazine. All rights reserved.

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