Would you rather:
a.) Drink beer
b.) Smoke pot
c.) Play Mario Kart DS all day
You don't have to answer that because we already know! That's right,
yet
another
post on game addiction! This time a pair of studies
by researchers at Berlin's Charité hospital "have found that computer games can lead to addiction, similar in structure
to problems with alcohol or cannabis."
The study came to these conclusions after comparing reactions between a group of 15 casual gamers and 15 "excessive"
gamers. This methodology seems specious, excessive anybodys would surely display levels of "addiction"
towards that thing, so why is gaming singled out? If we were talking about an "excessive" Shakespeare reader it
probably wouldn't be making the news rounds.
So what's so wrong with salivating over images of a cold beer and Katamari Damacy? Is this because Germans
already think games "make young people stupid"?
[via gamepolitics.com]
