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It states fairly quickly that it isn't going to go into too much detail about why some people have died after very long gaming sessions, which makes the title rather misleading. This isn't the book to do that, despite the very strong suggestion from t... Read More
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- This product had a total of 20 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 7 2022.
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Highlighting both the good and bad influences that gaming has had but doing so with a storytellers voice and not just a list of facts
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Thought provoking informed intelligent look at the impact and possibilities of video games and gamers
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This is the best book on videogames out there a thoughtful and mature exploration of the effects that games can have on us good and bad
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Stories of the positive role video games play sit next to tales of darker obsessions
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I didnt read the entire book as there were sections of the book that had no interest to me for my thesis
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Game violence is always an act of play not of sincerity
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The real world can be a unpleasant place sometimes games can be a way to forget about the world around you and concentrate on simplified versions of the real world where you some degree of control
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Survival in a hostile environment has its own appeal even something deliberately boring such as desert bus where you drive a bus along a straight road for eight hours and have to constantly correct the bus veering to the right can be an interesting challenge
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