Available at Amazon in paperback, ebook, and Kindle Unlimited. Ian Lane, a video game tester at tech giant Honeycomb, is on the verge of a total breakdown. He studied game design in college, but instead of coding the next masterpiece, he's stuck in a dead-end QA job, documenting bugs in boring, broken games. He takes a break and visits his brother, Mike. Though the two have drifted apart, they reconnect over the retro video games that they played as kids. While Ian planned his trip as a tech detox, he becomes obsessed with "Gameroom 0," a mysterious, unreleased virtual reality system in Mike's gaming collection. The incomplete games initially offer predictable, escapist adventures. Ian later discovers a neural interface that transforms them into full sensory experiences, chronicling the entire lives of his in-game avatars. A bland World War II shooter becomes a hellish journey for Marine Corporal Ian Lane, who pines to return home to his girlfriend, ...
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