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Breakfast of Champions – Jesse Schell talks about how games will dominate our lives in the future

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Ville Miettinen

… including the enormous popularity and profitability of Farmville, Club Penguin, Webkinz, MafiaWars, Guitar Hero and consoles such as the Wii and Wii Fit. Driving the success of these games are what he calls “psychological tricks”, but also a common sense of realism. In a modern world surrounded by fake experiences, he argues that these games appeal to our hunger for authentic experience.

Schell then notes how almost every company from airlines to Weight Watchers currently …

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