This document discusses online gaming and its effects. It describes popular massively multiplayer online (MMO) games like World of Warcraft and their revenue. It outlines both potential positive and negative physical effects of gaming, such as increased fitness but also obesity. Mentally, gaming may improve strategies and problem-solving in children, but also promote hostility, violence as normal, and poor grades. Both benefits and detriments to socialization are explored. Sources are cited to provide examples of these effects.

1. Living Life Online and the Effects Lanie Dattilo COM 130

2. About Gaming Online What is online gaming? What are MMO's and MMORG'S? These aren't only for nerds?

3. Popular Games

4. Game Revenue WOW-$500 million plus Fantasy Westward Journey $150-500 million

5. Positive Physical Effects -Fitness -Relationships

6. Negative Physical Effects -Obesity -Lethargy

7. Positive Mental Effects In young children -strategic planning -increased problem solving potential Confidence and a sense of reward

8. Negative Mental Effects -Hostile -Unforgiving -Violence as a norm -Poor grades -Insecurities/Socialization Problems -Sleep Problems

9. http://www. youtube .com/watch?v= YersIyzsOpc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWBfLOZ2CjQ&feature=channel> Samples of the Effects

10. Au, Wager James. &quot;The Top 10 Money-Making MMOs of 2008.&quot; Web log post. Www.gigaom.com . GigaOM Network, 1 Feb. 2009. Web. 26 Aug. 2010. <http://gigaom.com/2009/02/01/top-10-money-making-mmos-2008/>. Slides 3 & 4 Dell, Kristina. &quot;How Second Life Affects Real Life.&quot; www.time.com . CNN, 12 May 2008. Web. 26 Aug. 2010. <http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599, 1739601,00.html>. Slides 8 & 9 LeBlanc, Steve. &quot;Can 'World of Warcraft' Make You Smarter?&quot; Www.msnbc.com . MSN, 18 Aug. 2008. Web. 26 Aug. 2010. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id /26271240/>. Slides 6 & 7 & 8 Moverley, Daniel J. &quot;The Effects of Gaming on Socializing, Social Behavior, and Making Friends.&quot; Ed. Michael Hartman. Www.brighthub.com . 28 Sept. 2009. Web. 26 Aug. 2010. <http://www.brighthub.com/video-games/mmo/articles/50292.aspx>. Slides 1 & 5 & 9 Bibliography

11. Ransom-Wiley, James. &quot;WoW Surpasses 10 Million Subscribers, Now Half the Size of Australia.&quot; Joystiq . 22 Jan. 2008. Web. 27 Aug. 2010. <http://www. joystiq.com/2008/01/22/world-of-warcraft-surpasses-10-million-subscribers -now-half-the/>. Slide 3 Tan, Joel. &quot;Fantasy Westward Journey Online Posts 1.66 Million Concurrent Users « EveryJoe.&quot; EveryJoe.com . 29 Mar. 2008. Web. 27 Aug. 2010. <http:/everyjoe.com/play/fantasy-westward -journey-online-posts-166-million- concurrent-users/>. Slide 3 &quot;Video Game Technology Shifts To Rewarding Play : NPR.&quot; NPR : National Public Radio:News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts : NPR . National Public Radio, 8 Mar. 2010. Web. 27 Aug. 2010. <http://www.npr.org/templates/ story/story.php?storyId=124371326>. Slide 5 & 7 YouTube - Greatest Freak out Ever (ORIGINAL VIDEO) . YouTube – Broadcast Yourself. Web. 27 Aug. 2010. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YersIyzsOpc>. Slide 9 YouTube - Greatest Freak out Ever 2 (ORIGINAL VIDEO) . YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 27 Aug. 2010. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= WWBfLOZ2CjQ&feature=channel>. Slide 9 Bibliography