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Kirito and Leafa finally manage to fight their way to the town of Alne, at the foot of the World Tree, but before they can begin their ascent, server maintenance forces them to log out. In the real world, Kazuto and Suguha Kirigaya both visit Asuna Yuuki in the hospital, and although they are still unaware of each other's in-game identities, Suguha realizes just how much her brother cares for the unconscious girl. Meanwhile, in the game, Asuna puts an escape plan in motion.

A renowned game designer describes how she recovered from a debilitating concussion by turning her therapeutic process into a digital game that became the subject of a major NIH research study.

A guide to video and Internet games for gamers that features tips and tricks, facts and statistics, and interviews with YouTubers, professional gamers, and developers.

After escaping Sword Art Online, the forbidden VRMMORPG of death, Kirito returns to reality to find that his game partner and lover, Asuna Yuuki, has not returned and his only clue to her virtual whereabouts is a mysterious screenshot than leads him into the new VRMMORPG world of ALfheim Online.

"Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer--a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but Anda soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrong are a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake"--Inside front cover.

Kazuto Kirigaya, aka Kirito, beat "Sword Art Online" and revived from his game-induced coma but the same cannot be said for many others, including Asuna Yuuki, the girl Kirito fell in love with while in the virtual reality massively multiplayer online role playing game. When he discovers that Asuna is still alive, Kirito re-enters the game to try to save her.

"In the year 2022, some six thousand gamers excitedly explore the new Sword Art Online, which manipulates users' brain waves to create a wholly realistic gaming experience, but soon learn it lacks a log-out button and to escape they must conquer all one hundred floors--or die trying"--Library of Congress.

When the boy she likes at school disappoints her, fourteen-year-old Thea connects with a fellow player of the online game, Skadi, but although he claims to love her she becomes more and more uncomfortable with him and having to cover up their relationship.

A massively multiplayer online game featuring quests, battles with monsters, and competition for treasure run by Jagex Limited.

Provides an overview of the life and career of Mark Pincus, the creator of Zynga, a social networking game system.