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Married, With Children And An Xbox: Compromise In Video Games Play, Marc A. Ouellette
Married, With Children And An Xbox: Compromise In Video Games Play, Marc A. Ouellette
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(First paragraph) In a home with two children under six, managing to find the time and the games that allow for play with a partner who has completely different tastes and capabilities produces compromises both inside and outside the game, as well as a hybrid form that spans the two. This last point highlights the fact that compromise remains a popularly studied topic in considerations of games, but only within very discrete boundaries that do not necessarily have anything to do with play or with players. Said another way, compromise appears in studies that foreground games as promoting aggression and …