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Bogost in Games.com, CNET

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On Games.com: "Georgia Tech professor and game researcher [LCC Professor] Ian Bogost tries to put his finger on why so many people seem so worried about Zynga and what their success represents for the game industry. "I have a liberal sense of what a game is. I do think, though, that the kind of experiences that [Zynga] are creating are more like [Skinner] boxes, like behaviorist experiments with rats. They're relying on creating these compulsions so people will want to come back and click on the bar. And so, in that respect, I fear those kinds of products." Bogost weighed in on the debate about social gaming and Zynga; detailed coverage of the issue is on CNET.

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