1. VIDEO GAME CULTURE

2.  How many of you play video games?  If so, what kind of games? There are different types!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_ge nres http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_ge nres  How often do you play?

3.  Demographics (Characteristics of a Population)  Socialization Vs. Anti-socialization  Offline and Online Gaming  Slang and Terminology  Competitive Gaming  Video Games as an Art Form  Representations of Gaming Selves Vs. Real Selves  Anonymity: Good or Bad?  Issues and Benefits of Games In Popular Culture

4.  How Big Do You Think Video Games Are?

5.  The Highest Grossing Movies Worldwide are: 1. Avatar: $2,782,275,172 2. Titanic: $2,185,372,302 3. The Avengers: $1,511,757,910 4. Harry Potter And the Deathly Hallows-Pt.2: $1,328,111,219 5. Transformers: Dark of the Moon: $1,123,746,996

6.  5. Wii Play: $1.25 billion  4. Grand Theft Auto 4: $1.35 billion  3. Mario Cart Wii: $1.4 Billion  2. Call of Duty Black Ops: $1.5 billion  And the Number One Top Selling Game of All Time Is….

7.  $10+ BILLION  It continues to sell enough copies and expansions to have its gross total continue to be counted, thus the +  Released on November 23, 2004  Has sold over 15 million copies since its release  Brings in over $1.5 billion PER YEAR

8.  Let’s look at the most played video game in the world per month at the moment:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdr6jAP kf04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdr6jAP kf04

9.  People from more that 145 countries play daily  Over 32 million people play monthly, which is more than the 12+ million peak subscribers to World of Warcraft  There are 12 million active players daily, with and average of 3 million people being online at any given moment  Worldwide, 1+ billion hours are spent playing the game EVERY MONTH  The Season 2 Championship from the video used around 5% of all of North America’s internet bandwidth during its occurrence.

10.  We will now start out unit on video game culture and Ernest Cline’s novel, “Ready Player One”.  But before we open the book…

11.  We will use your avatars throughout the unit, so be sure to put some effort and thought into them. Don’t lose them!  You can either draw your own or use HeroMachine HeroMachine  Your avatar can be anything you want! Male, female, wizard, warrior, space marine, Jedi, or anything else: it doesn’t matter. Just make your avatar into something you would want to be or how you would want to represent yourself in a game.