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Role-Playing Games, Offering a New Reality

Published October 21, 2006 at 8:00 AM EDT

The real and the virtual converge in computer games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby, co-authors of Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution, discuss the implications with Andrea Seabrook.

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