PODCAST: Game On: Vol 1 No 5 August 15, 2005: Addicted to Games

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Show notes:

Card, Orson Scott. “Civilization Watch: Brain Training.” The Ornery American, June 26, 2005.

Castronova, Edmund. “Virtual Worlds: A First Hand Account of Market and Economy on the Cyberian Frontier.” The Gruter Institute Working Papers on Law, Economics and Evolutionary Biology: Berkeley Electronic Press, 2001. http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=giwp

EverQuest Widows. http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/EverQuest-Widows/

Hines, Michael Joseph. “Ever as Everquest: How the features of Everquest, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game, resulting in addictive play behavior. 2003. http://www.geocities.com/michaeljosephhines/everquest.pdf

Leigh, Karen. “When Video Games Control Kids.” WCCO/CBS. 8/10/05 http://wcco.com/seenon/local_story_222114603.html

Online Gamers Anonymous http://www.olganon.org/

Palma, Krista. “The Next Addiction” Eagle Tribune, Jan 12 2003. http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20030112/LI_001.htm

Peele, Stanton. The Stanton Peele Addiction Website: The Nature of Addiction. http://www.peele.net/lib/index02.html

Suler, John. The Psychology of Cyberspace. Department of Psychology, Science and Technology Center, Rider University. http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/psycyber.html.

Thompson, Clive. “Game Theories: EverQuest: 77^th Richest Country in the World.” Flat Rock, June 17, 2005. http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/info_and_tech/game_theories.htm

Young, Kimberly S.. Caught in the Net. How to recognize the signs of Internet addiction and winning strategy for recovery. (Wiley, 1998)