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Beyond video games

Steffen Roth (ESC Rennes): Serious Gamification: On the Redesign of a Popular Paradox. Arden Rowell (Illinois) and Dan Bacon (Harvard): Gamifying Risk Communication: The Game of Mortality. The secret life: Gabriel Winslow-Yost reviews Gamelife: A Memoir by Michael W. Clune (and more) and God in the Machine: Video Games as Spiritual Pursuit by Liel Leibovitz. Beyond video games: Lauren C. Williams on how virtual reality is having a major moment. The man who created Second Life thinks we can make an Earth-sized virtual world. Patricia Hernandez on 10 big myths about video games, debunked by the people who make them. Gamergate may have just won its most disgraceful scalp yet. Jesse Singal on the strange tale of Social Autopsy, the anti-harassment start-up that descended into Gamergate trutherism.