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By Simon Parkin
No matter if it's house Invaders, sweet overwhelm Saga or Grand robbery car, games draw us in and don't allow move. In Taiwan, a spate of deaths at gaming cafés is elevating a query: why is it that a few of us are taking part in video games past the bounds of our actual wellbeing?
Death through game uncovers the true tales in the back of our online game obsession. alongside the best way, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin meets the gamers and video game builders on the frontline of digital extremism, together with the recent York doctor trying to holiday the Donkey Kong global checklist; the Minecraft participant 3 years into an epic trip in the direction of the sting of the game's giant digital international and the German hacker who risked legal to find the secrets and techniques in the back of Half-Life 2.
Investigating the influence of games on our lives, demise via online game will switch the way in which we expect approximately our digital playgrounds.
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