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The Lie Spread Among Gamers

For the past few months, the media has been insisting that video games cause violence. The media supports this by stating that before violent video games, international casualties were not nearly as high. There is no or close to no evidence to prove that video games cause violence. “The public doesn’t always blame crime on video games — but they are eight times more likely to do so when the perpetrator of a crime is white,” according to the website Ivory. Despite this the fact that it has been proven that video games do not cause violence, we decided to interview people around the FCS campus and asked their opinion on the matter.    Do video games cause violence?   Tue Huynh: No, because there are articles that explain experiments and research that show that video games do not cause violence.   Theo D: No, I’m not sure.   Tal:…


Minecraft Comes Back to Dethrone Fortnite

About 10 years ago, the worldwide renowned game, Minecraft, was released by Mojang, on May 17, 2009. The game was such a hit because of all the creativity that Microsoft bought Mojang for 2.5 billion dollars in 2014. However, Minecraft started losing players and Youtubers in 2017. That year, a game called Fortnite, a battle royale game was released. The battle royale was a very creative game, unlike anything else seen before. The game attracted so many players because of how unique it was. In Fortnite, you could build walls, ramps, floors, pyramids, etc. This was the first battle royale game with a building feature. The game was more kid-friendly, excluding blood from the game. Fortnite was also free, which cut out the price factor and decision making for the parents spending money on the game. The game continued to be an extremely successful game.  Starting in 2019, Fortnite also…


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