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		<title>Acer Gaming Computer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheChallengeBase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acer Inc. is a large multinational company from Taiwan that produces desktop computers, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDA), servers, storage devices, display screens, peripherals, and other similar electronic products. It provides products and services for businesses, for the government, for education and also for home users. The company was founded in 1976 by Stan Shih [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Acer Inc. is a large multinational company from Taiwan that produces desktop computers, laptops, personal digital assistants (PDA), servers, <a id="aptureLink_8XLkJZ8MMA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20storage%20device">storage devices</a>, display screens, peripherals, and other similar electronic products. It provides products and services for businesses, for the government, for education and also for home users. The company was founded in 1976 by Stan Shih and has the headquarters at Taipei, Taiwan. </p>
<p>But since it is a large multinational corporation, of course it has many other subsidiaries all over the world. In 2009 it had a revenue of almost 18 billion dollars, a net income of 384 million dollars, and a number of employees of around 6.600.</p>
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<p>We were used to discuss about the <strong>Acer laptops</strong>, but for today we’ll discuss about a computer from this company. And not just any computer, but the <strong>Acer gaming computer. </strong>and this is an amazing PC, called the Acer Predator. For today we’ll discuss about the <a id="aptureLink_Qzh4ipkTo9" href="http://www.techpowerup.com/125417/Acer_Announces_Aspire_Predator_Gaming_PC_with_GeForce_GTX_470.html">AG 7750 – U 2222</a> Extreme Gaming Desktop model, which has a really big price of 1,999 dollars. But even though it is really expensive, it will offer some amazing features, that seem out of this world. And it’s the same with the design of this computer, and it really looks like some kind of alien device. Its processor is the really powerful 2.8 GHz Intel Core I 7-930 processor  while the RAM memory has an amazing 12 GB of DDR 3 RAM. There are six slots, each one containing 2 GB of DDR 3 RAM. So you can just imagine how fast this computer will process any kind of information, from the most complex video games to other demanding tasks such as video or audio editing. You can practically store hundreds of large video games on this computer, thanks to the enormous hard drive of 1.5 TB. So this means there are 1,500 GB of free disc space for you. The hard drive has a speed of 7200 rpm, so you can just imagine how fast you will copy and install files.</p>
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<p>It may not be a laptop so that you can carry it anywhere you go, but you can still move it from one place to another easily thanks to its chassis covered by a rugged protective material and a secure handle for transport. You can’t have a good video experience without a powerful graphics engine, so this computer has a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 graphics card with a memory of 1280 MB of GDDR 5 onboard memory and full DirectX 11 support. It also has a good optical drive – the 16 x Super Multi DVD ± R/RW drive which can write to CD, DVD RAM, and dual layer (DL) DVD ± R discs, which can hold up to 8.5 GB of data. It also has <a id="aptureLink_5YVoZdrSSd" href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/resources/pressroom/pressrelease.jsp?press_release_no=1327">DualLAN technology</a> two Gigabit Ethernet ports, so that the game can easily play its favorite video games on the internet, and also High definition 7.1 channel surround sound output. So if you will have a 7.1 sound system, the gaming experience will be amazing. It comes with an installed version of the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system and a warranty of 1 year. Its dimensions are: 16.9 x 19.3 x 7.5 inches (W x D x H).</p>
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		<title>Free Gaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheChallengeBase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you are tired after a long day and you are looking for some fun and relaxation, you can choose to play a video game. You probably don’t have enough time to play a really complex computer game, so this is why it is much more simple to play a free online flash game. these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whenever you are tired after a long day and you are looking for some fun and relaxation, you can choose to play a video game. You probably don’t have enough time to play a really complex computer game, so this is why it is much more simple to play a free <a id="aptureLink_4Qfrk1XzZR" href="http://www.onlineflashgames.org/">online flash game.</a> these type of games are really simply to play and to understand, and most of them are ready in just a few minutes, so that you can move on to another cool game. they are just long enough so that you can play a <strong>game</strong> when you take a 10 minutes break from work. They don’t even need to be installed, and this is because they can be played directly from the Internet browser. And besides all of this, they are absolutely <strong>free</strong>, and all you need to play them is a computer and a connection to the Internet.</p>
<p>There are many sites with such games and one of them is <a href="www.funny-games.biz ">this</a> one.The games from this site are sorted on different categories, and these are: sport games, shooting games, <a id="aptureLink_zjYHA3JiNB" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing%20video%20game">racing games</a>, puzzle games, multiplayer games, fighting games, casino games, card games, board games and also arcade games. So now let’s choose a random game and discuss more about it, for example Cyclo maniacs. Here you need to ride your bike through many interesting levels. There are 20 models of bikes, 26 tracks that you can try and also 70 achievements to unlock. To control your bike you will need to use the arrow keys and the space bur or the X key to jump. If you have a horn, you can use it by pressing the B key. This game doesn’t take place just on earth, but there are also tracks on the moon and on an asteroid.</p>
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<p>But first you will play in the desert. You will need to accomplish different tasks, and as you advance in the game you can also buy upgrades for your bike. There are 20 bikes, and each one has a character riding it. And they are not just regular riders, but famous people or funny things like: robots, Mr. C, Elvis Presley, a ninja, a bear, a stick man, Bruce Lee, the comedians <a id="aptureLink_0po0oWAc16" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel%20and%20Hardy">Stan and Bran</a>, a dinosaur, a skeleton, a zombie and others. So press the up arrow key to gain speed, and you can also use the right arrow key to lean forward and go even faster. When you jump in the air be sure to land safely, and depending on how much time you spend in the air you will get more stunt points. You can also get trick points by making forward or backward somersaults. You can also the wheelies and they will bring you points as well. To have more money, try to finish among the first positions. For the first place you will get 100 dollars, for second – 50 and for third – 25. After all it is a really fun game. good luck!</p>
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<p>So this was just an example of a game from funny-games.biz, but there are thousands of more other ones that you can try. So after all this site is a really good one for <strong>free gaming. </strong>Enjoy it!</p>
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		<title>Old Computer Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheChallengeBase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone talks about computer games, first thing that passes through your mind are the modern 3D high-detail and sparkly video games, that are currently flooding the market on every country. What about old computer games? Some may highlight the first few, first person action games that spreaded, as a world wide phenomena such as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When someone talks about <strong>computer games</strong>, first thing that  passes through your mind are the modern 3D high-detail and sparkly video  games, that are currently flooding the market on every country. What  about <a title="Old Computer Games" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games" target="_blank"><strong>old computer games</strong></a>?  Some may highlight the first few, first person action games that  spreaded, as a world wide phenomena such as Doom or Duke Nukem, and you  are right they are indeed the stone markers for the computer video  gaming era, but certainly not the first.</p>
<p>The first video game dates back in January 25, 1947 and it was  a  Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device made by Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. Estle  Ray Mann.  The game itself consisted of an analog device, that allowed  the user to control a vector drawn dot on a display borrowed from a  military radar. It may not be the prettiest sight nowadays, but back  then it was something revolutionary, it was an innovation and marked the  beginning of the blooming gaming market. The profits from such a new  market had the potential to generate billions of dollars and they were  right.<br />
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A good example of an <strong>old computer game</strong> that became popular  amongst the teenagers and adults back then, was Spacewar written by  Martin Graetz, Steve Russell, and Wayne Wiitanen, all of them being  students at MIT &#8211; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The game was  written for DEC PDP-1 computer in 1961 and with the help of the  computer&#8217;s vector display, two spaceships battled each other.</p>
<p>To play a <strong>computer game</strong> now all you have to do, is to own a  personal computer, buy a game from the millions out there that suits  your needs, install the game and let the fun begin, back in 1960 there  were a few more tedious and complex steps needed to perform before  playing anything that resembled close to a game. The modern computer  games are delivered on a cd/dvd easy to install, while the <a title="History of video games" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_games" target="_blank"><strong>old computer games</strong></a> came as written code, most of the times found on magazines. The early  gamers had to program their own games using the code found in the  magazines, on their own computer, thus its player base needed some  knowledge in Computer Science field. All of these previous steps being  eliminated as soon as the first external storage devices became  available for the public, thus increasing further more the number of  potential buyers/clients for this new market.<br />
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Another benefit from this new market was that almost with every <strong>computer game</strong> sold back then, a personal computer was sold along with it it also. We  can say that when the computer gaming era started, it forced the  computer manufacturers to build smaller and cheaper personal computers  making the everyday man more opened to this new technology that is very  common in the present times.</p>
<p><strong>Computer games</strong> spreaded like a highly contagious disease  amongst people and there was nothing ahead that could stop or slow down  its rate, the gaming market continuing to exist and its clients numbers  increasing with each and every passing day.</p>
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		<title>Play computer games</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheChallengeBase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever you are bored and you don’t have anything to do, and you wish to do something interesting that will take away your boredom, you can always choose to play some computer games. If you are a child or a teenager you probably already have a lot of video games on your computer. But the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whenever you are bored and you don’t have anything to do, and you  wish to do something interesting that will take away your boredom, you  can always choose to <strong>play </strong>some <strong>computer games. </strong>If you are a  child or a teenager you probably already have a lot of video games on  your computer. But the video games are not just for the young ones, but  they can be played by anyone, no matter the age. So let’s say that you  are a little older than the period when you were having many video games  stored on your hard drive…and now you are quite bored and you want to  play a video game. But you just don’t have one installed on your  computer, and you don’t have time or money to go and buy one from the  store. What can you do now? Well the solution is a really simple one…you  can choose to play a free <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_game">online flash game.</a> These are usually small and also really addictive games, which are  found on the internet for free. And you don’t even need to download them  or install them into your computer, because you can play them directly  from that website.</p>
<p>There are thousands of video games of this type with all sorts of  characters and stories. And you can find some of the best of them on the  site <a href="http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/">miniclip.com</a>.  the games from this site are still small and easy to play, but they  have quite a complex graphic for simple flash games. And this is why  this site is one of the most popular ones in the world for games of this  kind. So let’s pick a random game from here and discuss more about it.  Let’s begin with the “Soccer five”. As its name says, this is a soccer  game. But it is not just a regular one where you play on a classic field  with the national teams of some countries, this is more of a “street  soccer” game. You will play as the “Miniclip team” and you will have  different opponent teams such as the “Wild wasps”.<br />
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You can choose to  play in the practice mode to learn the controls of the game, or you can  start a tournament and beat all the teams in order to become the  champion. The clothes of the soccer players are quite unusual for this  sport, and they look more like basketball players rather than soccer  players. But still the graphic and the game play of this soccer game are  really good for just a simple flash game. The controls may seem  difficult first, but after you get used with them it will be ok. You  have to use the arrow keys to control the players and move them on the  pitch, the Z key to pass or swap players, the X key to shoot and also  the C key to tackle and opponent. The game is quite fun, and you can  spend some time playing it. Have fun!</p>
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<p>So let’s play one more game for today from miniclip.com, for example  the one called “Worm food”. Here in this nice game you have to build up  speed to charge in and attack the villagers. Also be careful to avoid  obstacles because they will slow you down in your mission to eat all the  villagers on the screen. Use the left and right keys to turn the worm,  and the up key to accelerate or the down key to slow down. Build up to  the top speed to jump and reach higher places. Complete the levels by  eating all the villagers that you can see on the screen. There is also a  mini map that will show you where the villagers are on the level and  also the objects that you have to avoid. You will be shown in a green  circle, the humans are shown in yellow while the obstacles are red.</p>
<p><a id="aptureLink_7W5f3Jmsu8" style="margin: 0pt auto; text-align: center; display: block; padding: 0px 6px;" href="http://miniclipigre.blogspot.si/files/2010/01/Miniclip-Igre.jpg"><img style="border: 0px none;" title="Miniclip Games Racing" src="http://miniclipigre.blogspot.si/files/2010/01/Miniclip-Igre.jpg" alt="" width="256" height="185" /></a></p>
<p>So have fun  playing these video games, and if you know some others  that are really interesting and worth playing, tell us more about them.  Have a nice day!</p>
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		<title>How to download computer games</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheChallengeBase</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There  are many fun activities that you can do while staying at the computer,  for example you can browse the internet and chat with friends, or you  can watch movies, or listen to music, but you can also play a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game">video game</a>.  There are 2 major categories of video games, and we can have the  complex video games, the ones that come on a CD or a DVD, and which need  to be bought and then installed into the computer….and there are also  the free online flash games, which are found on the internet for free,  and they can be played directly from your internet browser, without  needing to download or install anything. And for today we’ll focus more  on the first category, the complex video games, the ones that usually  come on a CD or DVD, and which need to be installed into your computer.</p>
<p>The  video games industry has evolved very much in the last decades, and  today there are many companies that are producing all sorts of  interesting games. They can have all sorts of topics and characters, and  they are getting more and more complex every year. Many years ago most  of the video games had just a few MB in size, but nowadays they can have  a few GB. They have very complex graphics and the game play involves a  lot of characters, stories and gets really complicated as you advance in  the game. There are all sorts of types of games, and here are just some  examples: shooting  games (FPS), racing games, sports games, adventure  games, fighting games, role playing games and many more others. As we  said there is a game industry, one that produces millions of dollars  each year. Some games are more expensive, others are cheaper, but you  still have to pay to be able to play them…or at least you had to pay.  The internet is so huge and so popular these days, that you can find  just about any video game you want, for download, for free. So in case  you wonder “<strong>How to download computer games”, </strong>here are a few methods that you can try.<br />
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The first and most simple one would be to search on <a href="http://www.google.ro/">google</a> the game you want to download. Simply go on this site (probably the  most famous one in the world), and write the name of the game you want,  followed by the words “free download” or something like that. This way  you will find hundreds of sites that are promising to offer you that  specific game for free, but not all of them are really offering what  they say. So you can try another method. Some of the most famous sites  used these days for downloading big files (such as movies or video  games) are the torrents. So this method too involves google, but after  writing the name of the game you want to play, write the word “torrent  download”. For example you can search like this: “counter strike torrent  download”, and you will find many pages, and at least one of them might  work. There are many famous worldwide torrents sites, such as  torrentz.com or isohunt.com. These are huge sites, with tons of video  games, movies, music and you can find just about anything you want here,  for free. But even though you find the file you were searching for,  there might be another problem. And this is the download speed.  Depending on how many seeders that file has, you will have a good  download speed or a bad one. And sometimes you can find really big video  games (of 4 GB or more), that are downloading with a speed of just a  few kb. So this means that you will have to wait for a few days to  download that file.<br />
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And in order to help you <strong>download computer games </strong>for  free, we will give you 2 torrent sites that are really good, and which  also offer a good download speed for most of the files. These are  Romanian sites, but you can probably download from them from anywhere in  the world. The first one would be <a href="http://www.filelist.ro/">www.filelist.ro</a> and the second one: <a href="http://www.lasttorrents.org/">www.lasttorrents.org</a>.  The second one is in English so you can definitely use it from any part  of the world. They offer all sorts of files, from music, pictures,  movies to all the new and complex video games. And as we said the  download speed is really good, and for some files we even had a speed of  6 MB / sec.</p>
<p><a id="aptureLink_ChntdMO7mA" style="margin: 0pt auto; text-align: center; display: block; padding: 0px 6px;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20computer%20game"><img style="border: 0px none;" title="Personal computer game" src="http://placeholder.apture.com/ph/360x320_WikipediaArticle/" alt="" width="360px" height="320px" /></a></p>
<p>So here were some advices on <strong>how to download computer games , </strong>and  in case you too know some other methods or some other torrent sites for  downloading free video games, we invite you to tell us more about them.  Have a nice day!</p>
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		<title>Violence In Computer Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although people tend not to take in serious the real health and psychological effect that computer games may produce, these might really cause different aggressive reactions especially among the youth. It is already known that many children around the world suffer vary social problems, from communication ones to more serious problems, including violent reactions. Violence [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although people tend not to take in serious the real health and psychological effect that computer games may produce, these might really cause different aggressive reactions especially among the youth. It is already known that many children around the world suffer vary social problems, from communication ones to more serious problems, including violent reactions.</p>
<p>Violence in computer games can also produce many different psychological problems, like mania, dependence and plenty violent and aggressive temperaments. For instance, games which include fights, warriors or similar actions can easily affect children’s behavior. In such cases, parents should be very preventive while purchasing a computer for their kids and educate them upon its usage.<br />
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 Few of the most popular computer games risks include low social integration and much more serious problems like autism. Thus, a kid who cannot detach from everyday gaming for sure has a pretty high predisposition towards the problems mentioned above. Still these kinds of problems can easily be met among the youngsters, not only among the small children. </p>
<p>There are also people who spend their whole time playing different kinds of games which transform them in gaming-dependants or maniacs who pass away the everyday important things like going to school, learning or especially meeting their friends. As mentioned at the beginning, both the children and the youngsters do not realize how dangerous these computer games are.</p>
<p> There is no wonder how many kids and young people tend to arouse personal conflicts because of a computer game confrontation, saying that virtual fights can easily produce real ones. Apart from this, many psychologists affirm that a virtual space (for instance, a game) is what a man needs in order to stage what he or she really is.<br />
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 More exactly, this affirmation refers to the fact that although we tend not to take in serious a computer game (or any kind of electronic game) confrontation, the way we behavior while playing it is what we truly are. So, there is not just this excuse of a virtual space in which we are just playing without involving serious affects, but also a real space which is able to demonstrate us the way we really are, with all of these violent reactions, aggressiveness, irritations and so on.</p>
<p> For sure, there are many who do not agree with such opinions, but at least they should think about the way they really act while playing a computer game, more exactly they should ask themselves simply why people react in such ways if finally “it is just a simple game”.</p>
<p>In conclusion, there is to say that a computer game which includes vary kinds of confrontations, fights or any other violent actions, it isn’t including just these things, but also more real, serious and personal involvements.</p>
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		<title>1952 Father Of Computer Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 12:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Sandy Douglas was born on 21st May, year 1921 in the capital city of England, London.When he was eight his family moved to Cromwell Road. He attended the University of Cambridge in 1950 place where he received the chance to prove himself in the field of computers by programming the code for a simple [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alexander Sandy Douglas was born on 21<sup>st</sup> May, year 1921 in the capital city of England, London.When he was eight his family moved to Cromwell Road.</p>
<p>He attended the University of Cambridge in 1950 place where he received the chance to prove himself in the field of computers by programming the code for a simple game where a player could compete against a computer.</p>
<p>He invented the first computer game, a version of tic-tac-toe. In 1952, after A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University  of Cambridge on Human-Computer interaction he needed a way to prove his theories, and so he created the first graphical computer game- which was a version of tic-tac-toe, programmed on a EDSAC vacuum-tube computer. He used a model that appeared in 1947. The game was very simple, all that the player needed to do was to play against the computer and the image would appear on the 13*16 pixels vacuum-tube. This game was called Oxo and also Noughts and Crosses, and unfortunately didn’t become very famous because it could only be played because EDSAC was a computer only used in England.</p>
<p>In1953 Douglas spent a year at the University of Illinois Computation laboratory as assistant Professor. In 1955 he became Junior Bursar Of Trinity College.In the autumn of 1957 the Leeds Pegasus computer was installed in the Eldon Chapel on Woodhouse Lane where Douglas set up the Computer Laboratory of the University of Leeds.<br />
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<p>Alexander Sandy Douglas is believed to be the <strong>father of modern computer games</strong>. If it weren’t for him would we still have our computer games nowadays? Can any of you imagine a life without computers or computer games? Of course, many of you could say that there have been times when people lived just fine without technology, and that is very true, but I believe these times are better and easier than those. And besides, computer games are fun.</p>
<p><strong>The story of A.S.Douglas’ life </strong>is a story of a man who had the courage to look forward in the future and to try to do something else, something different. As every invention in this world, the existence of the first computer game can also mean the beginning of a very big and important technology field nowadays. These kinds of men are men whom we should admire. This kind of men are men who make us ask ourselves whether we should also do something for this world or not.<br />
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<p>The computer games field has increased drastically lately, and the reason is because technology itself evolves very fast, and computer games evolve even faster.</p>
<p>Although we don’t actually know much about this A.S.Douglas, what is clear about him is that he and his Noughts and Crosses game helped improve a lot the technological field and that he can actually be considered the father of the computer games field.</p>
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		<title>Computer Games Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 08:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheChallengeBase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of this field, when the first computer games appeared, people had to save the game on their computer and then play it. Nowadays it’s a different situation, because you can play computer games online and what’s even better, is that these online computer games are free. Online computer games have the advantage [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the beginning of this field, when the first computer games appeared, people had to save the game on their computer and then play it. Nowadays it’s a different situation, because you can play <strong>computer games online</strong> and what’s even better, is that these <strong>online computer games </strong>are free. Online computer games have the advantage that you don&#8217;t need to install them and that they do not occupy space on your personal computer. Like every computer games, playing online computer games has it&#8217;s advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages could be that you don&#8217;t waste time installing them and that they do not occupy space on your hard disk, but a big disadvantage is that you can always take viruses.</p>
<p>I suppose that everybody has tried at least once in his life to play an <strong>online computer game</strong>. There are different types of <strong>online computer games</strong> and for all people, of all ages, nationalities, religion etc.</p>
<p>So there are<strong> online computer games</strong> for toddlers, for children between 10-14, for teenagers, boys, girls, adults, old people, computer games about war, about fairies, about animals, plants and so on. It’s very easy nowadays to play a<strong> computer game online </strong>because most of them do not require an account and you can just play it like that, without having to pay for it. Of course, there are some <strong>online computer games</strong> that require an account but those are more complex games and following the steps in order the register the site is not difficult alt all.<br />
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<p>One of the most common <strong>online computer game</strong> is “tetris”. This is a dynamic puzzle game invented by Alexey Pazhitnov in the year 1985.It’s really easy to play. The square pieces must be rotated and shifted as they fall and fill in the blank spaces. The game ends when the bricks don’t have any space left where to fall.</p>
<p>Another <strong>online computer game</strong> that is very famous is the arcade game “Pac-Man”. What is the most important fact about this game is that is non-violent, reason why it actually became very popular during the 80’s. It’s simple to play, all you need to do is eat dots and other prizes and try not to meet the four ghosts that are trying to catch Pac-Man.</p>
<p>Card games such as “freecell”, “Yukon”, “pyramid”, “shamrocks castle”, “blackjack” “solitaire” are also a category of very popular <strong>online computer games</strong>. The most played in my opinion is solitaire and especially FreeCell solitaire where the player must place all the cards in each suit in ascending order. The victory in this game depends more on strategy than on luck.<br />
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<p><strong>Online computer games</strong>, simple complex or strategic they can also be a meaning of entertainment and they can all help us relax. Online computer games have become quite a business nowadays, a real life area that people use every day for fun, field that they can even use to make money, by inventing, using and selling computer games.</p>
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		<title>Addiction To Computer Games</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 08:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will start this article by telling you a little story that I have read some time ago, about a young man and his addiction to computer games. This boy has always been a good child, the only child in his family, always had good grades in school, never caused any problems to his parents, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will start this article by telling you a little story that I have read some time ago, about a young man and his <strong>addiction to computer games</strong>. This boy has always been a good child, the only child in his family, always had good grades in school, never caused any problems to his parents, finished a good highschool and also graduated from a good University. He was that type of person who is very calm, and kind who liked long walks, good movies and good books. He actually had a thing for books. He liked to read and books were his life. He even opened his own Book Store, and everything was great for him. A lot of people trusted him to buy books from because they got the books in a short time and because it was obvious that the guy really knew what he was doing. This situation lasted for a few years, until…until he discovered the pleasure of playing computer games. He started like everybody does. Playing a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow and so on, until he started not to care about his life anymore. His friends called him everyday asking what was happening to him, and he would just answer “I’m busy, I can’t talk right now”. He was indeed busy, playing computer games while his books were just standing there waiting to be sold. By the end of the year he had lost everything; his family, his friends and his little store. He now works as a salesman. He sells computer games in a video store.</p>
<p>The conclusion of this little story is that once we are trapped in the<strong> computer game addiction</strong> is really difficult to escape from it, and most of the times people realize it when it’s already too late.<br />
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<p><strong>Computer game addiction</strong> has indeed become a problem, especially for young people. This story is one of the many of this kind in the world and unfortunately it hasn’t ended in a happy way.</p>
<p>.Ask yourself how many of these stories have a happy ending? How many of these young people know when to stop? How many of them even realize that they have a problem? I believe that not many of them. Taking into consideration that the cases of computer games addiction are more and more numerous then I believe that not enough people realize what they are getting into.<br />
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<p>A lot of teenagers and young men have a computer game addiction nowadays and most of the times neither their friends nor the family can help them escape this addiction. The only one who can help these people is themselves. It’s important learning from the mistakes of others so next time when you feel like playing computer games all day ( and all night) long, think about the story of this guy and about what his computer game addiction did to him.</p>
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		<title>Negative Effects Of Computer Games In Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 06:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young people in general play more often computer games than adults. It is a good way to have fun and many students don’t know when to stop playing these computer games. The first and main negative effect of computer games is violence. Many computer games are violent and most young people actually start to enjoy [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Young people in general play more often computer games than adults. It is a good way to have fun and many students don’t know when to stop playing these computer games.</p>
<p>The first and main negative effect of computer games is violence. Many computer games are violent and most  young people actually start to enjoy violence. It would be a good thing if students learned how to keep  violence only in the game but most of them have the tendency to also be violent in real life. Parents usually see this effect on their children most of the times when is already too late. So the violence of computer games is the most negative effect that computer games have on students.</p>
<p>Another <strong>reason why computer games are not good for students </strong>and why computer games have a negative effect on them is the ADD (attention deficit disorder).More and more students suffer from this syndrome and most of the time this happens because of computer games. Students tend to get very involved in a certain game and when they must deal with facts or situations in their life becomes very difficult for them to do that.<br />
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<p>I was reading the other day  a story about a 14 year old student who had a very big problem with computer games. He started like every student does, by playing one computer game, then another one and so on. The young man started not to care anymore about school, his friends or his family. By the time his parents realized it was already too late. His parents took his computer and locked it in another room, but the boy managed to open the door and take his computer back. Trying to talk to the child didn’t work and the parents did not know what to do anymore. Fortunately, one day, the child realized what he got himself into, and decided that this was not the way he wants to live his life and decided by himself to quit playing computer games. The fact that this child realized what he had done was a great thing, but how many  students in the world manage to solve these problems by themselves without specialized help?</p>
<p>As a conclusion for this little story, we can easily see that the <strong>reasons why computer games are not good for students</strong> are related to the fact that they interfere in student’s social and family life. Computer games have the tendency to become addictive and as every addiction, it’s quite hard to get cured by your own and without help from friends, family or specialized persons.<br />
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<p>The<strong> reasons why computer games are not good for students</strong> are very numerous and computer games really have some negative effects on students, and the reason why I choose to talk about these two is because they seem to be the most frequent and the most dangerous ones. In order for these things not to happen, a student must be educated in a certain way so he doesn’t fall in the trap of computer games addiction.</p>
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