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This Is What You Look Like Playing Video Games, Kids [Art]
Kotaku — ... tongue-work most of us exhibit while playing games. Some are hilarious, some are puzzling — what's that kid crying over at 1:56? — and some are a little sketchy, considering some of the games I recognize by sound only are definitely M-rated kill sprees. Anyone feel like offering some help in identifying some of the games being played? I can pick out a few — GTA IV, Call of Duty 4 — but most are just on the tip of my tongue. Immersion [The New York Times] ...

Putting on your game face
GoNintendo — The New York Times has a great video feature that shows off the gaming faces of kids. A camera, pointed at kids faces while they play games. Simple idea, awesome outcome. Check out the video here ...

Gamer face: What you look like when playing videogames
Destructoid — ... This video, created by photographer Robbie Cooper for The New York Times, showcases the various faces kids make as they're playing videogames. Everyone's faces are different, from some looking immersed, some looking bored, and so on. One kid even cries a little bit, but that might be because he wasn't blinking. Actually, I noticed quite a few of these kids not blinking at all. ...

Immersion
nullsumme:: game__design__blog — interesting and funny... Photographer Robbie Cooper shows just how focused young video-game players can be. Kids' Expressions While Playnig Video Games (video on New York Times' Video Library - via swissmiss)

Face! What we look like when we game
That VideoGame Blog — ... might be the most unbiased piece of reporting on gaming that I’ve ever seen. The above video, Immersion, is simply gamers’ faces as they game. It was put together for The New York Times Magazine by photographer Robbie Cooper, and while not interesting in the context of seeing new things — since we’ve all seen these faces before — it is interesting in the context of gamer representation. The video shows such a wide variety of reactions to games that one can’t help but feel the overall message is that everyone takes away ...

Immersion
buttonmashing.com — Photographer Robbie Cooper shows just how focused young video-game players can be. Come back here and let me stab you! Link. ...

The Intense Faces of Video Gamers
GamersGame.com Gaming Blog — Photographer Robbie Cooper shows how intensely focused video gamers are when they are playing games. (via New York Times via Videogum) Permalink | Recent Headlines | RSS Feeds ...

Young gamers show us their V-face in Immersion video
Fidgit Atom Feed — ... Watch Cooper's short video, Immersion, on the New York Times web site. Trust me that it's well worth sitting through whatever annoying ad you'll have to watch first. ...

the fifth estate: Top Gun, video game addiction (2009)
VG Researcher - Psychology — ... ’s Immersion project. A video can be seen from the New York Times . The insistent push by the journalists into the video game industry and unto the audience that the industry should take a big responsibility in regulating video game sales to minors. A missing point about kids playing violent video games, if parents don’t buy violent video games, It’s just not through the internet kids can play violent video games, their kids can find a friend who has parents that will buy them. (4chanesque attitude) Reporter ...