Welcome to Our World: Connecting Parents with Gamers

Welcome to Our World: Connecting Parents with Gamers opens a window into the world of gamers through their authentic accounts of engaging in World of Warcraft, a hugely popular 3-D multiplayer online game. At the same time, this book reveals the mysteries of videogaming to parents who wonder why their children are so wrapped up in the activity. Readers will get a balanced view of videogaming - understand its good and bad effects, its benefits and risks - and learn that video games can help develop thinking and problem-solving skills and social skills like leadership and teamwork. In providing insights into the gaming environment, this book hopes to provide a useful platform for family bonding, and help parents and their children, and gamers and non-gamers, connect.