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In Canada, volunteers are increasing money for charity by participating in marathon stints of Penn & Teller's Desert Bus, most likely the worst gaming ever created. Across the globe, thousands of audiences listen in to Kurt J. Mac's epic but seemingly pointless voyage towards external realms of Minecraft's procedurally-generated world. In Iraq, moms encourage their children to enter Call of Work contests to keep them off the bomb-ravaged streets of Baghdad. And in Taiwan, a spate of fatalities at games cafés is increasing questions in what playing video gaming will to us. In Loss of life by Video tutorial Game, renowned games journalist Simon Parkin delves into the lives of obsessive gamers to answer the question: why do we spend so many time of our lives in online playgrounds? Sharing with the reports of gamers and the designers who create the worlds they obsessively inhabit, Loss of life by Video tutorial Game is a window on the human being stories that contain made video gaming the twenty-first century's most exciting cultural medium.