Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World

Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World

A wide-ranging intellectual history that reveals how important games have been to human progress, and what’s at stake when we forget what games we’re really playing.

We play games to learn about the wo…

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