Tag Archives: gaming addiction

As we reported last week, currently the World Health Organization is pushing to have ‘gaming disorder' classified as an addiction under the ‘disorders due to substance use or addictive behaviors' banner. This would put gaming addiction in the same league as having a drug or alcohol addiction. Now, the Entertainment …

Free to play mobile games have become huge over the last few years, particularly in Asia. However, recently one of the biggest free to play gaming companies, Tencent, has recently been fielding complaints from parents in China regarding video game addiction, so to combat this, one of the company's most …

Game addiction is a dangerous thing according a new study from Cardiff, Derby and Nottingham Trent universities, with some players of popular MMOs spending upwards of 90 hours per session playing the games, and the researchers want developers to do something about it. According to e study, the problem with MMOs, …

I worry about my brother, he is 21 and addicted to gaming. He spends all of his spare time playing games online with friends and distant strangers. Getting him outside of his house can be difficult at times, and I always wondered – is it ‘medically' possible to be totally …