Some may know players they believe to be addicted. Many readers will have encountered the notion of video game addiction in newspaper and magazine accounts. I begin with the topic of addiction-a perennial favorite of the media and one which seems to crop up often when people ask me about video games. Having examined theoretical arguments about magic circles, performativity, and so on, this chapter, and the next two, take up broad themes of gaming that are part of academic discourse but also reach into wider arenas of conversation in the mass media and blogs and forums.
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