The Game Anthropologist: The Gaming Family Habit

[’The Game Anthropologist’ is Michael Walbridge’s regular GameSetWatch column looking at gaming communities and subcultures. This week he explores the impact gaming decisions have on marriage.]
My wife, Amanda, will spend two weekdays and a weekend playing a new release that’s coming out; she even wanted to preorder it and get it at midnight. I am not as excited about this as she is. In fact, for a while I was dreading it. This is because she wants the new World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, and I had become converted to Warhammer Online.
My friend Bill (real name), a friend of mine since I was 10, had leveled up in World of Warcraft while I was in college. I got a review copy of Warhammer Online. “Tell me how it is,” he says. “It looks pretty cool.” My first verdict was “I don’t know”, and my second was […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Mike Walbridge) and software by Elliott Back