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Powering Up: Are Computer Games Changing Our Lives
Wiley (June 3, 2008) | ISBN: 0470723106 | 336 pages | PDF | 4 MB
When it comes to computer games, the numbers are astounding: the world's top professional gamer has won over half a million dollars shooting virtual monsters on-screen; online games claim literally millions of subscribers; while worldwide spending on computer gaming will top £24 billion by 2011. From techno-toddlers to silver surfers, everyone's playing games on their PCs, Wiis, Xboxes and phones. How are we responding to this onslaught of brain-training, entertaining, potentially addicting, time-consuming, myth-spawning games?
In Powering Up, Rebecca Mileham looks at the facts behind the headlines to see what effect this epidemic of game-playing is really having on us and the society we live in. Is it making us obese, anti-social, violent and addicted or just giving us different ways of getting cleverer, fitter and more skilled* She examines the evidence, from experts and gamers alike, and asks some controversial and thought-provoking questions:
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