Summary:Series of articles examining what draws different types of gamers to the hobby of playing video games. Keywords:playing games, video games, play games, games hobby Article Body:There exists some ephemeral quality that separates gamers from the rest of humanity, some thing that makes us, us and them, not us. I've never been able to quite put my finger on it, but it is inescapably there....

Summary:Part 2 in the series examining what draws different types of gamers to the hobby of playing video games. Keywords:playing games, video games, play games, games hobby Article Body:Last week we started to get into the motivation of the gamer. We discussed challenge and its ugly stepsister competition, two of the most common motivators. Today, we look at two more on the way to forming an...

Summary:In the final part of this 3 part series on playing video games, we have a look at Socialization and try to tie it all together. Keywords:playing games, video games, play games, games hobby, free games Article Body:In part 2 of this series we took a look at Creative Expression and Escapism, two significant motivators of the common gamer. The week before that, we covered Challenge and...