Can video games help deal with a fear of death?

Death in video games is something that all gamers have to deal with, but the element of passing on is something that many fear in real life; but do games help numb this fear?

The PBS webseries, Game Show explores the way in which video games introduced death and how it evolved. The inconsequential result of death in games has changed the way gamers approach games and the psychology of failure, but games that feature perma-death replicate a small degree of the real-life fear.

Check out the interesting video below:

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