UI prof's research shows games more than just play

Shane Castle shares inside jokes with his crowd, commiserates when work intrudes on leisure and gets the occasional invitation to a wedding or other type of social gathering.

The busy senior in computer science at the University of Illinois has never been able to make it to one of the events, however.

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