Video-Game Epilepsy: A European Study

Video-game epilepsy: a European study.

With the introduction of Nintendo video-games on a large scale, reports of children having seizures while playing suggested a possible specific, provocative factor. Although 50% of the photosensitive patients are also sensitive to a 50-Hz television, nonphotosensitive patients with a history of video-game seizures were described as well. The question arises whether this is a mere coincidence, p...

Video-game epilepsy.

Game Worlds: A Study of Video Game Criticism

This paper explores the relation between criticism and establishment of narrative forms and genres, focusing on the cultural situation of video games. Comparing the context of early film criticism and contemporary video game criticism, I argue that the public negotiation of meaning and value codifies a new medium as it emerges. In the case of digital games in particular, contemporary critics ap...

"Sonic, tonic, clonic": three cases of video game epilepsy.

Video games have become increasingly popular over the last five years and have rapidly become one of the biggest sellers in the market place. The first description of an epileptic seizure associated with a video game, was in 1981 by Rushton', when a seizure was described in association with a game of "Space Invaders", the precursor of many of the video games available today. Video game epilepsy...

Understanding learning within a commercial video game: A case study

There has been considerable interest and debate about the value of video games. There are researchers that suggest that video games are useful tools for engaging learners in engaging and authentic learning experiences (Gee, 2003; McGonigal, 2012; Shaffer, Squire, Halverson, & Gee, 2005; Squire, 2008; Steinkuehler, 2005). However, there are researchers that suggest that video games are harmful, ...