Crimes Against Pokémon GO: why dopamine does not explain the pleasure of video games

This paper attempts to correct common misunderstandings about the correlation between dopamine and pleasure in video games. By extension the paper argues that dopamine is not the cause of pleasure in games and that commonly drawn links between dopamine, games, and addiction are not valid. The paper further presents an auto-ethnographic account of Pokémon GO in order to provide an alternative perspective on why the game was so successful.