Your Brain on Videogames
American kids spend an average of seven hours a week gaming. But what about the grown-ups inside the industry, who play eight to ten hours — and then leave the office and go home to play some more? Jonathan Mitchell asked game producer Marc Nesbitt about living almost full-time in the simulated world.
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