Relatives and significant others mourn for their addicted gamers, who leave their loved ones behind in favor of games like World of Warcraft and EverQuest. Alexandra Pusateri dives into the world of gamer widows in the debut of Reality Check!

Well, hi there! This is my very first column on 411mania, so I guess you want to know a bit about me. My name's Alexandra Pusateri and I'm a journalism major at the University of Memphis. wow gold (Since it is March Madness, I'll also mention I am very upset about Coach Calipari leaving us Tigers.) I've been playing video games ever since I was a little girl, and I've always been a geek. I write about video games and technology for my college newspaper, The Daily Helmsman, and I run my own Internet radio station geared towards gamers.

But enough about me!

I'm here to give you ¨C drumroll, please ¨C a Reality Check. Did you see what I did there? You liked it, admit it. What I plan on doing each week is giving you a constant reminder that video games affects many things, not just your gamerscore. This week, I talked with a few people about the issue of video game addiction and its social effects. If you'd like to email me, you're more than welcome to, at alexpusateri[at]gmail.com. So here you go ¨C your first dose of Reality Check.