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****Can Video Games be considered another new mass media? What makes Video Games a different medium from conventional movies and music? Why are video games catching on?****
Given the current time we're living in, video games have become a prevailing epidemic. The reason behind this is the fact that with all the technology available currently, video games became a medium through which a lot of people can interconnect and interact with one another. Some might find that referring to video games as a "new mass media" unorthodox, but because users can log in from around the world and twine, it has owned its new label. It differs from movies and music because through video games, people are now cyber socializing. Where movies and music connect with us on a more personal basis, gaming now enables us to form teams online, to develop strategic thinking and provoke wider horizons never explored before; some even take up gaming as a career!

With all these qualities in hand, we can start understanding why video games are starting to catch on. It is the creation of our new found generation, something that holds sentimental value to a lot of gamers nowadays.