VOTD: Second Skin - Documentary About Gamers Addicted To MMORPGs

By Peter Sciretta/Aug. 6, 2009 10:28 pm EST

Over 50 million people around the world live in these online worlds, and Second Skin takes a look at a few of the characters in this space, running the gamut from a couple who met online in WOW and will be meeting for the first time ever in the real world, to a young man who’s addiction to WOW drove him to move into a boarding house as part of a 12-step online gamers self help group called Online Gamers Anonymous.

The entire film is now available for free online via Hulu. Watch it now after the jump.