Interesting article. Gonna post it at AGW too. thks.
I found this interesting:
It was often obvious when teenage boys were
playing, he said, because there was much
more trashtalk and sexist or homophobic insults
flying around.
But, said Prof Wright, it was a mistake to think
that this meant that gamers were
misanthropists.
"The most common emotion when people are
playing is laughter," said Prof Wright.
The only reason that people can get away
with insulting friends and foes was because
they knew them so well, he said.