Realism, imagination, and narrative video games

Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 323-340

  Shapiro, Michael A ^a   Peña Herborn, Jorge ^a   Hancock, Jeffrey T ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203873700     Document Type: Chapter

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