For those of you examining games and life online, you may be interested in this recent publication by Nick Yee. ***************************************** Dear friends and fellow gamers, I am so excited to let you know that my new book on the psychology of online games, “The Proteus Paradox”, is now in print and available on Amazon and other book retailers: http://www.amazon.com/The-Proteus-Paradox-Online-Virtual/dp/0300190999 The book challenges the myths around who plays online games and what really happens in these virtual worlds. We often think of online games as being about fantasy, freedom, and fun, but many gamers describe their gaming as a second job, superstitions flourish, and a player’s suspected offline ethnicity can be a matter of virtual life and death. Drawing from player narratives, psychology lab experiments, and analysis of game server data, this is a book about gnomes falling in love, how the community changes when the NPC city guards give out directions freely, and ultimately, what it means to be human in a digital world. Nick