History of Video Game Distribution

Abstract

Video games were originally distributed through fixed-function appliances or gaming consoles. As technology improved, various forms of physical media were used to distribute games, such as cartridges and discs. While this provided versatility, it also carried physical design considerations and complexities surrounding backwardcompatibility. Today, digital distribution is growing rapidly and beginning to overtake physical media. Cloud gaming is disrupting distribution even further by eliminating local storage, compute, and rendering and shifting all of those tasks to cloud compute resources.

Researching and designing educational games on the basis of “self-regulated learning theory”

“…But science popularization activities are often constrained by public awareness, science popularization resources, scientific space and space and talents, and are difficult to carry out continuously on a large scale. The digital education game is simple, convenient, and quick to spread, which is unaffected by time space and material resources and is also an ideal medium for carrying out science popularization activities (Mattioli, 2021). This paper therefore selected biological evolution as a learning component of an educational game and designed an educational game ("Ocean to Land") to assist vertebrate evolution.…”

Hidden Potential Within Video Game Consoles

“…Microsoft's recently announced Pluton security processor originated in the SoC previously discussed [10]. Other recently released consoles such as the Microsoft Xbox Series S and the Sony PlayStation 5 share the same characteristics and carry these traits forward; performance has improved with adoption of NVMe internal storage [11] and semi-custom variants of AMD's Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA 2 GPU cores while security has improved simply because threats (piracy and…”

Video Game Consoles in the Enterprise

“…Microsoft's recently announced Pluton security processor originated in the SoC previously discussed [11]. Other recently released consoles such as the Microsoft Xbox Series S and the Sony PlayStation 5 share the same characteristics and carry these traits forward; performance has improved with adoption of NVMe internal storage [12] and semi-custom variants of AMD's Zen2 CPU cores and RDNA2 GPU cores while security has improved simply because threats (piracy and cheating) and attacks only become more advanced over time.…”