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For game addicts, bad games are more addictive
Prof. Dmitri Williams, one of the leading academics in the gaming space, who was an expert witness at the U.S. Senate on the constitutionality of game banning laws, held a roundtable on game addiction at GDC. Williams referenced Carnegie Mellon Unive...
The science behind game addiction
Are games addictive? That's the question posed over at Gamasutra, and Neils Clark has gone into some detail to explain the science behind addiction and its relevance to gaming. Unfortunately, the answer isn't as clear-cut as a simple "yes" ...
Bejeweled 2 addiction
For those who have never experienced the sheer joy of addiction to the game known as "Bejeweled", now is your chance to get hooked. The developer, Popcap, have just released the sequel, the imaginatively named Bejeweled 2. Expect mor...
The root of gaming addiction exposed?
Researchers are just now realizing that video games may fulfill psychological needs like autonomy, competence, and relatedness. University of Rochester and Immersyve Inc. investigators have determined that it's not just a shallow sense of fun that en...
Video games and addiction: Are we there yet?
Gamasutra examines video game addiction as covered by mass media, its treatment by several clinics, and its lack of research. Sure, people have problems with excessive play, but can games be as addictive as other substances? From the article: "Games ...
China opens game addiction clinic
Ever the forward thinkers (except when people desire democracy anyway), China has opened a gaming addiction centre. Think your significant other has spent just a little too long playing Everquest? Send them here, where they will subsist u...
Dutch game addiction clinic is "swamped"
Smith & Jones, the Dutch addiction clinic that opened a gaming treatment program earlier this month, has been inundated with calls from pleading parents leading clinic director Keith Bakker to exclaim, "Computer game addiction is obviously an eve...
Addiction experts: Video games aren't an addiction
Apparently the doctors from the American Medical Association (AMA) who were looking to have video game addiction classified as a disease have backed away from their decision. They now recommend the American Psychiatric Association, who would have had...
German studies link gaming to addiction
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 st...
Game addiction battled with silent sound
Hear that? No, you can't. But, according to a report in The Korea Times, venture start-up Xtive claims to have developed an inaudible sound sequence that could have already broadcast its message 200,000 times since you began reading this post. And wh...
Gaming addiction can be helpful in the long term
No, this isn't another one of those studies on the advantages or disadvantages of gaming. It's simply one man's story of an addiction to games in college and the perspective he gained from it -- that something good can come even out of academic proba...
University: Gaming addiction is real but over-diagnosed
Research at the U.K's University of Bolton says that gaming addiction may be over-diagnosed up to 10 percent of the time because indicators that were previously thought to relate to a gaming addiction had been borrowed from gambling addictions; what ...
AMA voting on legitimacy of video game addiction
The American Medical Association will decide later this month whether "Internet/video game addiction" will be added to the Bible of crazy: The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). The proposal comes in a 10-page document prepa...
Korean government seeks to reach out to game addicts
Korea's Ministry of Information and Communication plans to "build centers that aim to prevent online gaming and Internet addiction, as well as offer anti-addiction courses to local universities." This follows the enormous rise in requests for help ...
Video gaming addiction: worse than alcohol?
With two major new consoles about to roll out, and a billion new games in the pipeline, at what point do you step over the line from casual gamer to addict? An interesting article on Aeropause talks about both the effects of video game addiction, and...
