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Parkin, Simon.
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Video games -- Social aspects.
Video games -- Psychological aspects.
Video game addiction.
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Parkin, Simon.
Video games -- Social aspects.
Video games -- Psychological aspects.
Video game addiction.
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Death by video game : danger, pleasure, and obsession on the virtual frontline / Simon Parkin.
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Parkin, Simon.
Melville House, [2016]
Call #:
794
.8
P247d
Subjects
Video games -- Social aspects.
Video games -- Psychological aspects.
Video game addiction.
ISBN:
9781612195407 (hc.)
Description:
xvi, 254 pages ; 23 cm.
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Includes index.
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"On January 31, 2012, in an internet cafe on the outskirts of New Taipei City, Taiwan, 23-year-old student Chen Rong-yu was found dead at his keyboard while the video game he had been playing for three days straight continued to flash on the screen. As the author reconstructs what happened that night, he begins a journey that takes him around the world in search of answers: What is it about video games that inspires such tremendous acts of endurance and obsession? Why do we lose our sense of time and reality within this medium? What is it about video games that often proves compelling, comforting and irresistible to the human mind? We meet the players and game developers at the frontline of virtual extremism, including the New York surgeon attempting to break the Donkey Kong world record; the Minecraft player three years into an epic journey toward the edge of the game's vast virtual world, and the German hacker who risked prison to discover the secrets behind Half-Life 2. A riveting look at the impact of video games on our lives."--Provided by publisher.
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