Why Game?

A Life Well Wasted by Robert Ashley

Apr 29, 200953:00Games & Hobbies

Robert Ashley wonders why he spends his free time playing videogames, asks random people on the street about it, talks to a researcher whose work attempts to harness the brain power wasted on gaming, gets to know an ecce...

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