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The gaming industry should "face up to responsibilities to protect players from potential harms"
Read More »Video games are ‘setting kids up for addiction’ says NHS England mental health head
Royal Society for Public Health calls on UK government to do more to protect young people from ‘the normalisation of gambling in video games’
"We and the young people we’ve spoken to are concerned at how firmly embedded gambling-type features are in many of these games"
Read More »China implements law to control microtransaction spend and bans young people from playing games after 10pm
Young people under 18 will be limited to just 90 minutes of gameplay Monday-Friday
Read More »NHS England opens first gaming disorder clinic as lobbyists call for games industry to ‘take more responsibility’
"Gaming disorder is not a mental illness to be taken lightly"
Read More »Snooker’s Neil Robertson blames video game addiction for slump in form
Australian snooker player and former world champion Neil Robertson has claimed that he is recovering from video game addiction. Speaking to Eurosport, Robertson said that he’s been forced to go cold turkey after investing too much time in titles such as World of Warcraft, League of Legends and FIFA. I …
Read More »Man suing Bethesda over Fallout 4 ‘addiction’ after he loses wife and job
A Siberian gamer who played Fallout 4 non-stop for three weeks is taking Bethesda to court, alleging that he became ‘addicted’ to the game. The 28-year-old claims no responsibility for the 21-day binge that he claims resulted in the loss of his wife and job. If I knew that this …
Read More »UPDATE: The Sun ‘investigation’ claims gaming is ‘as addictive as heroin’
As if video games aren’t already bad enough, it has now been revealed that they are as addictive as another really bad thing. So says The Sun, anyhow, which has a spread in today’s paper (via @scully1888) with the headline: ‘Gaming as addictive as heroin’ carrying a ‘The Sun Investigation’ …
Read More »Flappy Bird creator pulled game over addiction concerns
Dong Nguyen has spoken publicly for the first time since the high profile removal of his hit title Flappy Bird from the world’s app stores. And it transpires that the decision was caused simply by the Vietnamese developer’s concerns about the amount of time people were spending playing the simplistic …
Read More »Internet gaming addiction "changes the brain"
Today’s copy of UK newspaper The Independent carries word of new research that suggests an addiction to the internet and online gaming could actually alter the brain. Researchers used MRI scanner to examine the brains of adolescents who spent excessive amount of time online, often playing online games. These images …
Read More »Two hours gaming = a line of cocaine
Just one day after claims linking video games to sleeplessness emerged, Lancashire based therapist Steve Pope has made some of the most bewildering accusations yet about the possible harmful effects of gaming. Spending two hours on a game station is equivalent to taking a line of cocaine in the high …
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