This is half of a pair of articles that highlight the evidence for and against the existence of video game addiction. Read the counter-argument here. For decades, psychologists, parents, and gamers ...

Lawsuit accuses major gaming companies of enabling video game addiction. Allegations include negligence and deceptive practices. Get the strategy to turn September’s volatility into 10x trades → The ...

The Head of Addiction Services at St John of God Hospital has warned that shopping, video gaming and gambling are part of a surge in behavioural addiction in Ireland, and that the problem is "all ...

The World Health Organization, also known as WHO, will start recognizing "gaming disorder" as an official mental health condition next year. The International Compendium of Diseases (ICD), which is ...

Why the hell does this need explaining? Find out what you’re talking about, O Mighty Sages of the Living Room Prairies. A Japanese education ministry survey showed that 17 percent of children aged six ...

Japan has long been synonymous with gaming, but some experts and parents fear a growing addiction problem is going unaddressed. Mia Itoshiro works with a group that gives seminars on preventing gaming ...

Adults at risk of developing a gaming addiction are more likely to overspend on in-game purchases due to increasingly ...

A CyberPeace report raises alarms over online gaming's impact on children, citing risks of addiction and exploitation. It ...

About three-quarters of children and teens play video games. According to Common Sense Media, teens spend an average of almost two hours gaming daily. Boys make up the large majority of gamers and now ...

S1: I'm Andrew Bracken and this is Screen Time , featuring conversations about technology and kids in today's digital age. My kids are addicted to their screens. It's a common phrase many parents ...

An eSports-themed hotel in Hangzhou, China is just one of the ways China’s gaming scene is reliant on long game sessions, something that China has worked hard to curb. Photo: STR/AFP (Getty Images) ...