In this paper, the authors specifically focus on the opportunities and challenges presented by the Nintendo Wii to preschoolers in context to three key objectives in order to facilitate game development: First, to understand the range of physical and cognitive abilities of preschoolers in motion-based game play; Second, to understand how preschoolers interact with the Wii; Third, to understand ...

Interactive fiction and video games are part of our cultural heritage. As original systems cease to work because of hardware and media failures, methods to preserve obsolete video games for future generations have to be developed. The public interest in early video games is high, as exhibitions, regular magazines on the topic and newspaper articles demonstrate. Moreover, games considered to be ...

Nintendo Switch, also known as “NS”, is a video game console released by in 2017. This product received worldwide accreditation with its multi-functionals both home and handheld device. NS marked the fifth best-selling consoles of all time. study analyses key success factors NS, collecting upturns downturns each significant release history, comparing horizontally to same generation products own...

We explore the indirect network effect in the market for home video games. We examine the video game console makers’ strategic choice between increasing demand by lowering console price and by encouraging the growth of software variety. We also explore the existence of an applications barrier to entry in the console market, and find that there is little evidence for such a barrier. Finally, we ...

The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a powerful gaming console that supports Internet-related activities, local file storage and the playing of Blu-ray movies. The PS3 also allows users to partition and install a secondary operating system on the hard drive. This “desktop-like” functionality along with the encryption of the primary hard drive containing the gaming software raises significant issues ...

The research community has proposed several techniques for estimating the quality of network paths in terms of delay and capacity. However, few techniques have been studied in the context of large deployed applications. Network gaming is an application that is extremely sensitive to network path quality [1,2,3]. Yet, the quality of network paths among players of large, wide-area games and techn...

Introduction In November 2010, Microsoft released the Kinect RGB-D sensor as a new Natural User Interface (NUI) for its XBOX 360 gaming platform. The Kinect, like other RGB-D sensors, provides color information as well as the estimated depth for each pixel. At $150, the Kinect is an order of magnitude cheaper than similar sensors that had existed before it. This has dramatically reinvigorated i...

Incorporation of both conceptual and visual learning is an advantage that video games can provide. The concept of gaming has been used intensively for recruitment into Army or Athletic programs with success [2]. Games provide an excellent environment to explore ideas of computational thinking. Based on the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) [8], 67% of US households play computer and home...

hands on MIT’s new PDP-1, one of the first computers that used a screen and keyboard instead of paper punch cards. Spurred by what Atari founder Nolan Bushnell calls a natural desire to “make computers do fun things,” the grad students created Spacewar, the first recognizable videogame (1, 2). Spacewar allowed two players to pilot spaceships (i.e. white dots) across a starry background (white d...

Gaming systems like Kinect and XBox always have to tackle the problem of extracting features from video data sets and classifying the body movement. In this study, reasonable features like human joints positions, joints velocities, joint angles and joint angular velocities are extracted. We used several machine learning methods including Naive Bayes, Support Vector Machine and Random Forest to ...