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Ryan G. Van Cleave Prepares for the Release of a Second Game Addiction Book
Amazon has a product page up for the hardcover edition of Ryan G. Van Cleave's newest book on game addiction, "You Know You're a Video Game Addict If..." You may remember Van Cleave from his first...
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Study: Frequent Gamers Have Larger Reward Centers in the Brain
A new study from Charité University Medicine in Berlin has made a connection between the time a person spends playing a game with enlarged reward centers in the brain. The study published in...
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'Game Over' Play Depicts Couple in Crisis over Gaming
Birmingham resident Twana Bond-Jones has written a play called "Game Over" that deals with gaming and how it interferes with relationships. The first run of the play will take place April 21 at the...
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Man Convicted of Stabbing His Wife Over PS3 Addicition
Twenty-one-year-old Aymen Korbi of Wallington, England, was convicted in Croydon Crown Court on Tuesday for stabbing his wife. The charges stem from a November 2011 domestic dispute which ended with...
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2012 is the Year That Online Gaming and Online Gambling Merge, but is that Good?
States across the Union are passing or debating laws that will make online gambling legal, either for their entire state, or – as is the case being discussed in New Jersey, presently– just in certain...
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Dehydrated Teenager Hospitalized After 4-Day CoD Marathon
CBS Cleveland News is reporting that 15-year-old Tyler Rigby has been hospitalized after a 4-day gaming marathon left him severely dehydrated. Reportedly, the Columbus teen locked himself in his room...
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Real-Money Gambling Hits UK Mobile Devices With Big Fish Casino
Big Fish Games has launched the first real-money gambling game in the United Kingdom through a partnership with Betable. The Big Fish Casino U.K. app lets players gamble for fun or make best with real...
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Report: Chinese Government Creating Criteria for Online Gaming Addiction
According to a report from Xinhuanet (as reported on by Shanghaiist), the Chinese government is developing its own set of criteria for early diagnosis of online game addiction in young people. Chinese...
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Michael Langlois to Host 'Rethinking Gaming Addiction' Panel at PAX East
Michael Langlois, a licensed Psychotherapist, speaker, defender of video games, and author of the book "Reset: Video Games & Psychotherapy," will be hosting an interesting one-man panel at PAX East...
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Psychologist: Video Game Addiction Hard to Treat Due to a Lack of a 'Standard...
Dr. Daniel King, from the University of Adelaide's (Adelaide, South Australia) psychology department says that the definition of video game addiction has yet to be defined because of the model that...
View ArticleKatie Couric Offers One-Sided Discussion on Video Game Addiction, Video Game...
A recent episode of Katie Couric's syndicated talk show offers a pretty one-sided look at video game addiction, asking the question in the title: "Are Video Games to Blame for Violent Crimes?" Couric...
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Poll: Should MMOs Limit the Amount of Time Gamers Can Play Them to Stem...
When Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate came out a few months ago, I played it like a man obsessed! The minute I came home from work I would fire up the game and play it for hours on end. There was no time to...
View ArticleResearch: Online Game Elements Can Fuel Problematic Gaming
New research from the University of Missouri suggests that massively multiplayer online games can serve as a source for what is commonly referred to as "problematic video gaming." While gaming...
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Comic Relief: Telegraph's Tips for Beating Game Addiction
I'm not sure if this Telegraph article on game addiction is supposed to be some kind of Onion-esque comedy bit, but it sure reads like one. In it the author offers five tips for beating your game...
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Gaming Addiction Documentary 'Love Child' Debuts at the Sundance Film Festival
A documentary about the ill effects of online game addiction in South Korea made its debut this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival. According to the festival's official website (as reported on by...
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Flappy Bird Creator Pulled Game Because It Was 'Too Addictive'
Dong Nguyen, the 29-year-old Veitnamese indie creator of the popular mobile game Flappy Bird, said that he removed the game from both Google Play for Android and iTunes for iOS devices because he was...
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Flappy Bird Creator May Re-Release Game, Working on Three Other Titles
While Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen may have pulled his popular iOS and Android app from both stores because it was "too addictive" (despite making a lot of money off the free game), at the time he...
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Researchers Zero In On Gaming Addiction Treatments
Researchers at the University of Adelaide (Australia) are shedding light on the unique problems of supposed "gaming addiction," saying that there is "strong evidence" to suggest that new treatments...
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Poll Results: Should Gaming Addiction Be Recognized as a Real Addiction?
Last week we asked our readers, "Should the Mental Health Community Officially Recognize "Video Game Addiction?." The majority of you said that all behavioral addictions should be lumped together, with...
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'Flappy Birds' Returning in August With Multiplayer
Flappy Birds will be coming back, and when it does it will be a multiplayer game, according to the CNBC program Closing Bell. Host Kelly Evans confirmed on Twitter that the game will release in August....
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