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Even after the gold fever died down, gold itself was in the air in San Francisco—as long as you knew where to look. That place would be in the San Francisco Mint. In a majestic granite and sandstone building downtown, bullion was turned into gold coins—as well as lots and lots of gold dust.
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Is it real or is it virtual? Excessive gaming might make it hard to tell the difference.
(Credit: Nottingham Trent University)
Editors’ note: This story has been substantially revised. See the correction note at bottom for details.
If you’re a casual gamer or even — gasp! — a non-gamer, that security camera in the mall is nothing more than a surveillance device designed to keep people from stealing sugar packets from the food court. If you’re an “excessive” gamer, however, that very same camera is the eye of the evil overlord and it must be avoided at all costs.
That, at least, is what’s implied by the findings of a study conducted by Professor Mark Griffiths, director of the International Gaming Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University in England.
As part of ongoing research into the impact of gaming on real-life perception, Griffiths, working with psychologist Angelica Ortiz de Gortari, conducted the analysis of 1,022 experiences from 762 gamers collected in 44 online video game forums.
It was the second study in a series to explore what the researchers have termed Game Transfer Phenomena (GTP), the process by which ga… [Read more]
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