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UI prof's research shows games more than just play

By Greg Kline
Monday September 18, 2006

John Dixon

University of Illinois Professor Dmitri Williams holds up his laptop computer running 'World of Warcraft,' a 'massively multiplayer online game.'

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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