TAM! It's got the code it's going to launch!

It's a unit system.

I know this.

It's how all the files of the whole park.

It tells you everything.

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

Eagle One, the package is being delivered.

Hello out there on the internet.

I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.

Look, we've all gotten a little too involved in a video game.

I've repeatedly talked in print and on the show about how I've gotten lost and trying to complete maps and open world games like Assassin's Creed. And there's a million stories out

there about kids who spend all their parents' money on upgrades in Farmville. Hear me out.

When I say the words, State of Survival, or Game of Thrones Conquest, what comes to mind?

Crappy ads on Facebook, probably. Weird-looking games that

are obvious money pits, sure. But there's something a little more insidious going on here.

It's an evolution of the old addictive mobile game formula, one that's generated a new lawsuit.

With me today to talk through this all is Motherboard Senior Editor Maxwell Strawn.

He's just gotten done talking to a bunch of people who lost money and time to these games,

and some of them think they have the makings of a legal case.

Maxwell, thank you so much for coming on to the show and walking us through this.

Thanks very much for having me.

So tell me about the opening of this story has so many things in its written form.

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