Check out this super-duper-mega-awesome review of Video Game Play and Addiction from the Village Gamer. /me doing a dance.
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Video Game Play and Addiction is the 2009 Silver Recipient for Family & Parenting Resources. I’m only about 3 different types of ecstatic right now )) Here’s a link to the Mom’s Choice Awards website. They should be putting out a press release and official announcement on their site soon.
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Massively points out a nicely written piece on Kotaku about a gamer who “powerlevels” a character. The story is presented in three parts: Part I Part II Part III Powerleveling is a type of service, generally considered against the rules, for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. Many MMOs involve gaining levels as a [...]
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Whether or not video games are addictive or provide a useful learning environment is a hot topic. It is unfortunate that the term “addiction” is even bandied about. (Yes, it is a part of the title of my book. I explain the wording in the book itself.) Nick Yee, Stanford PhD, whose work I [...]
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Neat. Video Game Play and Addiction was mentioned on Ars Technica by their gaming guru Ben Kuchera. He specifically mentions and looks at the section about how gamers are different. A lot can be said about this topic and some very good literature has been coming out like Beck and Wade’s The Kids are [...]
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My Book
5 Stars: “... the most comprehensive, wide-view truth about game play and addiction book that I have read to-date”-
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