{"product_id":"2940172263439","title":"Lost in a Good Game: Why we play video games and what they can do for us","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Pete Etchells was 14, his father died from motor neurone disease. In order to cope, he immersed himself in a virtual world - first as an escape, but later to try to understand what had happened. Etchells is now a researcher into the psychological effects of video games, and was co-author on a recent paper explaining why WHO plans to classify 'game addiction' as a danger to public health are based on bad science and (he thinks) are a bad idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this, his first book, he journeys through the history and development of video games - from Turing's chess machine to mass multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft- via scientific study, to investigate the highs and lows of playing and get to the bottom of our relationship with games - why we do it, and what they really mean to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, \u003ci\u003eLost in a Good Game\u003c\/i\u003e is a very unusual memoir of a writer coming to terms with his grief via virtual worlds, as he tries to work out what area of popular culture we should classify games (a relatively new technology) under.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47116647170288,"sku":"2940172263439","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940172263439_p0.jpg?v=1763756757","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940172263439","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}