User:AndrewYue123/Gaming

Other uses[ edit]

 * Gaming, Austria, an Austrian market town and municipality
 * Gaming the system, manipulating a system's rules to achieve a desired outcome

Gaming in the digital age
When talking about gaming in general in this day and age, most people would assume you are talking about playing video games. While in the past gaming was also Incorporated with gambling, role-playing games, table top games and the likes. There is a reason behind this change in culture and use of word. The main reason would be because of the ever growing popularity of video games. Not only because of the growth of video games, but this change was also brought about by the ever changing of media and modern communication. Because of the recent surges of technology and the ever growing popularity of video games, many companies have been implementing a system called lootbox's. The problem with lootbox's is that many people view them as gambling and lootbox's motivate players to buy them in order to get the best items in the game. Gaming has also introduced new opportunities in this day and age. Gaming is now being regarded as holding promise for educational purposes due to the facts that it helps with critical thinking as well as hand eye coordination. There have been many different researches that have been tested out trying to prove that gaming can help with critical thinking and they have found out that gamer who play strategy games score higher in open minded activities and problems.