A synonym for life.

A computerized game that is played on a screen. If it weren't for these things, most young guys in America would spend a lot more time masturbating.

Where society always blames when a mass shooting happens

A software program which is made scape goat by many parents on basis of complaining that they promote and embed violence into their children without knowing that they are fun to play.

A fun activity that has been around for a very long time that is encompasses a very large audience and has many different genres.

So many people like them because instead of just watching some generic named hero do something that you’ve seen a thousand times. You get to be the hero, you make decisions, you progress the story, this then gives opportunity to so many things. Because now you can do these amazing acts and feel power and satisfaction.

Not to mention its an incredibly lucrative business opportunity, look at companies like Ubisoft and Bethesda, they are multi billion dollar companies and they made so much money just from making video games

This opportunity for creativity gives developers a lot of options and because they can include so much and because theres so many things they can do developers can add there own charm, There own ideas

But some people don’t get video games, they don’t understand what they are and only look at the surface and make borderline retarded connections. This lead to video games also being a scapegoat, people (more specifically soccer moms) have blamed so many things on this fun activity that its scared some people away from this genre of entertainment.

The only thing that's fun to do anymore.

A form of electronic interactive entertainment, one that has a considerable amount of history, and one that has gained an incredible amount of world-wide recognition over the years.

However, despite their technilogical evolution, world-wide recognition, and staggering age-spanning consumer rates, video games are still subjected to a variety of stereotypes.

These stereotypes are maintained by those who still harness the mindset that "all" video games are stupid, childish, time-wasting, mentally unbeneficial, or anyone who plays video games is somehow incapable of having a life.

On the contrary, video games in many ways can be more mentally beneficial than any other form of entertainment.

Specific video games can provide god-like creative abilities, have educational values, reduce stress levels, improve hand-eye coordination, stimulate intellectual properties, even make exercise enjoyable thanks to evolved control schemes "Wii Fit".

Delving into the immersive qualities of video games, video games can have very unique relationships with story-telling due to their interactivity.

These include altering the course of the story based on choices, playing as different characters, having multiple endings e.t.c

I could go on forever.

Video games do not only offer entertainment, but unmatched immersive storytelling experiences.