Reality Bytes in The Escapist Issue 215

Written on August 18, 2009 at 9:46 pm, by James Fudge

This week in The Escapist, Issue 215, “Reality Bytes.” The focus of this week’s issue is on When video games and the real world collide and the off after affects that are interesting and oftetimes odd.

Robert Yang writes about the game-like OKCupid dating service in “Grinding the Dating Scene“; Robert Buerkle examines the truth and realism in MMO’s in his article The Truthiness of Simulation; Kate McKiernan looks at the importance of using games to exercise free speech and whether or not Virtual Jihadi crosses the line in “Cease Fire: A Look at Virtual Jihadi“; and Haasim Mahanaim talks about advances in CGI and what happens when technology finally crosses that barrier into the real in “Attack of the Uncanny Valley.”

This and much more can be found in Issue 215 of The Escapist.