My Extra Life

In My Extra Life, Alan White will tell the story of a national obsession. He will chart the growth of the video game market through a combination of anecdote and analysis, explaining its social and economic effects with help from interviewees who have worked as professionals in the games industry (and a few other people who just happen to have played games with him at some point).

But this isn’t a straight history of the industry. It’s also a witty chronicle of the decline and fall of one man: the author himself. It is the story of the professional, social and indeed sexual opportunities that he has missed as a result of his addiction to video games: the pastime that has made him the resentful failure he is today.

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Alan White was born in Devon and was schooled there and in Portsmouth. He attended Oriel College Oxford on a scholarship and then studied for a postgraduate diploma in journalism at City University in London. He worked as a teacher for a while, before moving into journalism. He has written for various regional newspapers, the Sunday Express, the Observer, the Guardian, the TLS and Private Eye. He regularly writes humorous pieces for The Oldie. He has also worked in television as a researcher and development producer.
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