Internet gamers spend countless hours competing in games against people from all over the world.

Andrew Heidrich, an education network administrator from Sacramento, plays World of Warcraft for about two to four hours every other night, but that's nothing compared with the 40 to 60 hours a week he spent playing online games when he was in college

Heidrich now visits websites that discuss gaming addiction regularly "to remind myself to keep my love for online games in check.

Many more people in the States are spending their free time surfing the Web, e- mafling friends or playing games online.

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"Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education," explains Kevin

"We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too," Werbach says.

200 college kids were taught to play some unfamiliar video games.

An entertaining way of enhancing your analytical skills is to engage them by playing brain games.

For workers, especially low-paid workers, who desperately need their jobs yet know they can be easily replaced, gamification may feel more like the Hunger Games.

However, opinions vary on whether video games are effective.

Subjects who learned the games in the morning lost some skills when they played again 12 hours later.

Thanks in part to video games, the generation now entering the workforce is especially open to the idea of having their work gamified.

These are games that challenge you to think deeply and to develop your analytical skills.

These games will get you used to thinking in a certain way.

He had also planned the content of his speech to focus on the teams with the best records, the ones that had won the most games in the last season.

"It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue," said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee.

"It's a very small number of games that would trigger this secondary compensation issue," said voice actor Crispin Freeman, who's a member of the union's negotiating committee. "This is an important aspect of what it means to be freelance (從事自由職業(yè)的) perfor

A steady stream of similar headlines accuse the Net and its offspring apps, social media sites and online games of addicting us to distraction.

Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.

To reduce or avoid it, researchers have examined the effect of smoking, diet, brain-challenging games, exercise and other strategies.