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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Professor Given $100,000 to Study World of Warcraft - David DeBolt, Chronicle of Higher Ed
A researcher at University of California at Irvine got $100,000 from the National Science Foundation to study how Americans play the popular online game World of Warcraft, The Orange County Register reports. A hundred thousand dollars to study a video game that pits ax-wielding ogres against a cast of other fanciful characters? That would buy about 50,000 cans of Red Bull to support those late-night gaming, er, “research” sessions.
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