Social responsibility in online videogaming: What should the videogame industry do?

The Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) genre is one of the fastest growing and most popular in the videogame industry. MMORPGs are an Internet-only, dynamic and highly interact...

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