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Are Games Evil?

Teachers often feel that books are better for children than film or television, because books “exercise the imagination” whereas visual media do the work for you. Similarly, I used to think that playing games was morally superior to reading or watching, since players interact actively with a game rather than …

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Games are for Geeks?

What kind of people are gamers? First, a clarification: I’m only going to talk about electronic games, because if you include all games, practically everyone is history has been a gamer: think of Chinese ladies playing Mahjong, English seamen playing whist,

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