“What sort of recreation has the ability to absorb people to the extent that marriages break up, jobs are lost, and they lose friends? How does playing a game on a computer make someone lose functionality in the REAL world, because they want to spend too much time in some imaginary reality? For crying out loud, I thought, it’s just a game.” Jewels finds out the answer. —But in the End, They’re Still Nothing More than VideogamesJive Magazine)
The author is credited as “photographer” for the screen shots of gaming action. That may be stretching it, but I did find the visuals stunning.
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