TEDxUIllinois - Julian Dibbell - 4/1/10

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2010 · Gaming

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Journalist and "Play Money" author Julian Dibbell talks about death in videogames -- not killing, but what it means to die over and over in massively multiplayer games like "World of Warcraft," and how it's changing our perception of death.


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