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|title=Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

|author=Jane McGonigal

|publisher=Vintage

|date=April 2012

|website=http://janemcgonigal.com/

|summary=Though a little lengthy and rather one-sided at times I found ''Reality is Broken'' to be a goldmine of thought provoking ideas, presented in a well-structured form.

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There is no doubt about it. Video games are here to stay. They've become a significant part of our lives, and as new generations spend more and more time gaming it is becoming all the more important to understand why we play games and how they affect us. McGonigal argues that games, if designed and used correctly, have the potential to make us happier and can, at larger scales through mass collaboration, have the potential to really change the world. Throughout her narrative, McGonigal describes various ''fixes'' to a reality that she believes is restrictive and lacking compared to the worlds of games, in order to prevent a mass exodus into virtual worlds.