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This will be the wiki for Team 5: Gaming. Our content is currently a work in progress. The final copy of everything should be available by 5pm on Friday, March 5, 2010. | This will be the wiki for Team 5: Gaming. Our content is currently a work in progress. The final copy of everything should be available by 5pm on Friday, March 5, 2010. | ||
+ | Games have been around as long as history itself, beginning with board games, wrestling, and puzzles. Once computers were built a whole new market for games was created. This marked the beginning of the video game era, starting with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Higinbotham|William Higinbotham]]'s "Tennis for Two," programmed in 1958. Today there are thousands of different video games creating market competition and strict censorship within countries. | ||
===== Gaming Topics ===== | ===== Gaming Topics ===== | ||
- | {{ http://www.pwned.com/gamecovers/pc/4c3accb5e0373034dab0b33660f66502-World_of_Warcraft__Wrath_of_the_Lich_King.jpg?100|WOW}} | + | {{ http://dealbreaker.com/_old/2009/06/30/World%20of%20Warcraft.jpg?150|WOW}} |
- | *[[http://cs4edu.cs.purdue.edu/ci2010:team5:gaming_of_today|Gaming of Today]] | + | *[[ci2010:team5:Computers and Chess|Computers and Chess: The Battle to Make Computers Better Than Humans]] |
- | *Computers and Chess: The Battle to Make Computers Better Than Humans | + | *[[ci2010:team5:gaming_of_today|Gaming of Today]] |
- | *ADD NEW | + | *[[ci2010:team5:purpose_of_gaming|Purpose of Gaming]] |
- | *ADD NEW | + | *[[ci2010:team5:gaming_and_responsibility|Gaming and Content/Responsibility]] |
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+ | ===== Personal Gaming Computers ===== | ||
+ | Not only did video games change the way we spend time in front of the computer, but it changed the way we build them. Today, personal computers are bench-marked against each other using video games. A computer is now said to be better than another if it is able to run a video game smoother than the competition. Since computer companies rely heavily on the gaming community, it has pushed them to develop better computer components before their competitors. | ||
===== See Also ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||
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*[[http://ci2010-team4.blogspot.com/| Team 4]] | *[[http://ci2010-team4.blogspot.com/| Team 4]] | ||
*[[http://ci2010-team5.blogspot.com/| Team 5]] | *[[http://ci2010-team5.blogspot.com/| Team 5]] | ||
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