Video game craze in full swing
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an interview Eager gamers, young and old, have been camping outside the doors of electronics stores for days to get their hands on Sony’s new Play Station 3 video game console. It is a growing trend in the United States that has seen its revenues surge past movie ticket sales. From the fanatics who create online game cults to the casual player, Americans have come a long way from the days of Pac-Man to state of the art graphics that rival reality. What impact have these technological advances had on society? And are people spending too much time in front of the TV, caught up in fantasy worlds? A University of Minnesota expert who can comment on these issues is:
John Riedl, computer science professor, University of Minnesota
Riedl can discuss the evolution of video games over the past two decades and how they have been more and more integrated into our culture. He can also go into some of the technological depth of the advanced consoles on the market today. At the university, his research focuses on understanding how to create and use computer technology to solve the problems of increasingly complex human organizations.
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