Sentences with phrase «days of playing video games»

It was an amazing throwback to the days of playing video games with your friends on the sofa, something that has died off in recent years.

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Ninety - seven percent of American children ages 12 to 17 play an average of at least one hour of video games per day — games that wearables could render more visually and physically engaging.

Zhima Credit's technology officer, Li Yingyun, told author Rachel Botsman last year that people who played video games for ten hours a day would be considered an «idle person,» while those who buy diapers online were «more likely to have a sense of responsibility,» as they were likely to be parents.

But don't spend all your time watching TV, playing video games, or hitting a white ball around the green hills of America every day.

But this 99 - year - old woman plays hours of video games each day, sometimes beating her beloved Bomberman twice in 24 hours.

I absolutely love video games, specifically WoW, and while I can't play full time anymore, whenever I'm taking one of those breaks from work to rejuvenate, I'll get on there for a few days.

Each day of the golf school includes 3 hours of instruction and video on the range and short game area, plus 9 - hole playing lesson.

The Rose Bowl meant going to a neighbor's house for a New Year's Day party, where the kids ran around or played video games, some of the adults hung out around the kitchen, and the rest of them (plus me) planted in the living room with the game on one of those thick, projector - type square screens.

The other day I received an email from a neuropsychologist at a well - known New England medical center (I'll call him «Dr.. A» for short) wondering whether there was any evidence to support the recommendation made in a number of articles in our concussion center, as well as videos, that, as part of the cognitive rest a concussed student - athlete needs during concussion recovery, he or she should not play video games:

Up from 23.4 % in 2007, in 2017 40.6 % of students now spend 3 or more hours each day (on an average school day) playing video or computer games, or using a computer, smartphone, or tablet for something other than school work.

Gone are the days of educational toys like the abacus and alphabetical blocks; nowadays, parents of younger kids - even toddlers, are able to buy computer games and video games that their children can play with and enjoy while learning new concepts and skills.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a maximum of two hours of screen time a day (including time spent surfing the Internet and playing video games) for children ages 2 and up but research shows that preschoolers average between two and three hours of TV alone — excluding computer, video game, or movie time.

These days, instead of playing the license plate game like we did as children, our kids are plugged into a DVD or handheld video game.

According to Momentum, the festival will feature more than 160 hours of workshops, debates, live music, art exhibitions, children's activities, plays, and parties, including a «political games corner», interactive art exhibitions, pop up think tanks run by various groups including «Mums for Corbyn», a four day Hackathon tasked with building the tools needed to win the next election, workshops on how to make a viral video, a play telling the stories of striking miners and live streams of the Labour Party Conference.

In performance trials with 50 hardcore gamers who spend an average of two hours a day playing video games, players reached similar scores with both techniques, with no difference in response times — a critical issue for fast - paced games where any lag adds crucial milliseconds between pressing the «shoot» button and killing the enemy, for example.

For their research, Craig Stark and Dane Clemenson of UCI's Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory recruited non-gamer college students to play either a video game with a passive, two - dimensional environment («Angry Birds») or one with an intricate, 3 - D setting («Super Mario 3D World») for 30 minutes per day over two weeks.

The second group of 24 played the simulation game The Sims 3 every day for two months, while the final group of 28 did not play any video games for two months.

All test subjects were experienced gamers who had played first - person shooter video games, like Call of Duty, extensively in the previous four years — on average two hours a day.

When you've got pain in the center of your butt from sitting around on your Ass and playing video games all day, you know it's time to start exercising.

More than two years later, just days after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, Kilmister died at about 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time in his two - bedroom apartment not far from his favorite hang - out, the Rainbow Bar & Grill, on Sunset Boulevard, where he was often enthralled in the playing of a particular video game.

Hey, I'm a 20 year old man who plays lots of video games and hopes one day to get into a career in video game design.

I spend my days working, sleeping, going to the gym, playing video games (360, pc), and drinking massive amounts of coffee.

Play Sim games, free Simulation games online and other top flight, dating, business, management simulator games, every day new simulation game Dating sims, or relationship simulation role - playing games (RS - RPG), are a video game subgenre of simulation games, usually Japanese, with romantic elements.

In The Manchurian Candidate, Denzel Washington plays U.S. Army Major Bennett Marco, a man who spends his days giving inspiring speeches about his platoon's ambush in the Kuwaiti desert in the first Gulf War and in particular, the heroics of Sergeant Raymond Shaw (Schreiber), who won the Medal of Honor (the actual medal, not the video game) for saving Marco's crew.

its a bit difficult, harkening back to the days of old when video games did nt hold your hand so its not for everyone, but it's bright colors, catchy music and game play can absorb you if you give it a chance.

Alex Garland, a novelist - turned - cinematographer, has written some of the most geeked - about movies of the past 15 years: Sunshine, The Beach, 28 Days Later, and even a terrific video game called Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (if you haven't played it... play it).

Theodore (Phoenix) is a writer for BeautifulHandwrittenLettters.com, spending his days penning poetic love letters for customers» significant others and his nights playing video games and dreaming of his failed relationship with Catherine (Rooney Mara).

The only thing I know about the Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is from playing the point and click adventure video game, Grim Fandango.

You may have already seen the statistics both here at eLearning Industry and across the web, but what we hear a lot these days is that the number of people who play video games as a hobby is on the rise.

Day Z Standalone is not simply a video game that millions of people enjoy to play, but it is single handily responsible for increasing literary in youth.

One day Jake is a happy video - game - playing stoner struggling to complete his House of Mirth presentation for English class, and the next, he is an undead fugitive on the run from government agents bent on neutralizing the threat — him.

Maybe one day authors can sit back, enter a few plot points, establish the dynamics of the heroes journey and just kick back and play video games all day.

I have the crappy LG G - Slate and that thing lasts through a whole day of me browsing, playing games, reading magazines and watching video.

In a day of normal use that included reading, shopping, watching video, browsing the web, drawing, playing a console - level game, taking and editing photos, the Kindle Fire HDX 7 - inch's battery lasted throughout the day and night.

My model, which came with Verizon 4G LTE, gave me more than a full day of usage that included movies, music, web browsing, email, action game - playing, video editing, photo editing, and more.

Battery life on the Nook HD + is plenty good, allowing you to read for an hour or two each day for a week or more, so long as you don't spend a lot of time playing games or watching video.

Do you remember the days of playing board games... long before video games came along?

We hadn't been allowed to see the kids, of course, but we were shown where they were kept, and one of their teachers explained how they spent their days: learning to read and write in English, throwing a Nerf football, playing board games, and watching videos.

Everything from the character models to the level design and even the sound effects brought me back to a time where I would sit in front of my TV all day and play video games.

Another day, another video of me rambling away as I play a game currently in for review.

At the end of the day, games are a form of play that have a quantifiable outcome or goal (winning the minigames), rules (outlined by the tutorial videos prior to each 12S session), a feedback system (the game tells you via onscreen prompt or the controller's rumble if you succeeded), conflict (against a second player or AI), and are ultimately voluntary (no one is forcing you to play this minigame collection).

Don't let that get you down though: Think of it as one more day that's ideal for staying indoors and playing some great video games.

There's nothing wrong with any of the aforementioned regardless of who or where you are, but if you do happen to find yourself playing some video games with a love interest, perhaps you should take a look at some of the best games the two of you could play on Valentine's Day as a couple.

Online channels Twitch and eSports generate big audiences by streaming video game play, creating virtual spectator sports — a development few would have predicted in the early days of gaming.

The Deer God plays like a first draft of what might one day be a good video game.

My name is Andrei Dumitrescu and I have been playing video games since the days of Dune II and pixelated Formula 1 races, although reports from my father mention some earlier mainframe gaming when I was about 5 years old that involved Prince of Persia and stacks of print - outs about potions.

Hailing from not - so - jolly old England, Michael is a Freelance Writer that spends most of his days writing, playing video games or writing about the video games he's playing.

Michael Beckwith: Hailing from not - so - jolly old England, Michael is a Freelance Writer that spends most of his days writing, playing video games or writing about the video games he's playing.

The new IP will be unveiled on the first day of the event and will confirm the identity of the game being played in a teaser video, released today.

It's a sad state of affairs that mutual customers and friends can't play a game they enjoy with each other because of corporate policitcs, but it looks like it's just another day in the video game industry.