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Gamers as a collective intelligence? It makes sense to me, go on any game site's message boards and then try to argue that gamers aren't a social people with similar ways of thinking. Anyways this article at the Christian Science Monitor looks at this phenomenon a bit further:

These gamers' collective knowledge-building projects represent one of the most important aspects of contemporary video game culture, but also one of the most overlooked. Despite stereotypes of antisocial gamers who prefer to consume rather than create, most video-gamers are in fact engaged in a highly collaborative effort to exhaustively understand their favorite games. The video-gaming community is, quite simply, engaged in intense and highly successful "collective intelligence."

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