Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | about this site Why Japanese gamers love avenging Pearl Harbor. (25 Feb 2004) This leads to a surprising facet of game psychology: Really hard-core gamers often look past the cultural "content" of a game. They're mostly worried about a more prosaic concern, which is whether the game is fun. The geopolitics of a game melt away as players, like philosophers musing on their favorite platonic solid, ponder gameplay in the abstract. Article URL: http://slate.msn.com/id/2096112/ Read 21 more articles from Slate sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Wizards and Guides: Principles of Task Flow for Web Applications Part 2 This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy