Welcome to Lost In Space, a website devoted to providing support to Video Game Widows across the Internet.

What Is A Video Game Widow?

A Video Game Widow is a term for those who have a relationship with someone who plays video games to excess, be it on a console or on the computer, and who pays more attention to the video game than to their partner….thereby making their partner a video game widow or widowe. In general the term 'video game widow’ encompasses both male and female community members. 

Though any video game, even Solitaire, may create a widow, most video game widows are attached to players of massively multiplayer online role-playing games(MMORPGs). Because many of these games revolve around building or "leveling up" a player character, many hours are dedicated to this process while playing the game. Examples of MMORPGs include EverQuest, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, the Final Fantasy series and Second Life. Other games such as CounterStrike, the Halo series, Left 4 Dead, Gears of War, StarCraft and the Civilization series, often known for their addictive qualities, also result in their fair share of gamer widows.

Some support groups for computer widows exist in real life. Internet support groups exist for addicted players of the popular MMORPGs, EverQuest and World of Warcraft, with some gamers speaking in the media of their need for such a group. Eve Online has also been reported to be a problem for gamer widows. Perhaps ironically, there are also Internet support groups for World of Warcraft widows. Merchandise can even be purchased on the Internet with slogans admitting that a person is a widow to some of these computer activities.