Tag: VIDEO GAME ADDICTION

It was a world I could fully understand and control, in marked contrast to the chaos of being a teenager, with a home life ripe with conflicts I could neither escape nor resolve. In the case of my teenage self, and, I suspect, in the cases of many addicts, the world of the game was a private and unassailable refuge from a seemingly hostile world. The Guardian's own Tom Meltzer reflects on his ...

We've seen the cops called over video game-related incidents before. It's just that the fuzz usually gets involved only when someone's committed an actual crime -- too often murder. But no killing was required (at least not in real life) for Boston mom, Angela Mejia, to call 911 on her 14-year-old son. It seems that Mejia just couldn't deal with her boy's constant gaming. According to the ...

Analysts have been torn when investigating the addictive properties of video games, but at least one lonely girlfriend believes the debatable affliction is indeed very real. Apparently, she also decided that the only remedy for her Xbox-distracted boyfriend was staging an abusive, hysterical, and repugnant intervention. The jilted woman actually filmed her violent ultimate solution, and, if the ...

Douglas Gentile, an Iowa State University psychology professor and one of the nation's most highly regarded researchers of media and its effects on children, has spearheaded numerous studies on video games and how they influence child behavior. His most recent study, which observed the gaming tendencies of 1,178 adolescents, contends that 8.5-percent of American youths demonstrate addictive gaming ...

If domestic bliss is your goal, here is a bit of advice; do not put your big plasma TV and your PlayStation 3 in the bedroom. Oh, and certainly don't make your partner sleep on the couch so you can stay up all night playing 'Grand Theft Auto.' Carol Cannom, 46, of Lincolnshire, England, purchased 'GTA' for her 10-year-old son (we're questioning the intelligence of that decision, too), but soon ...

Let us start off by saying that we're taking this report with a grain of salt, seeing as www.PS3pricecompare.co.uk isn't exactly renowned as a beacon of outstanding research. Going off a recent survey, the console price comparison site is claiming that 72-percent of British men would choose a night of playing video games over a night with their girlfriends. Even more disturbing, 32-percent of the ...

As if video games didn't garner enough negative publicity about effects on young gamers, researchers now believe that the prolonged use of console controllers causes physical deformities in children's fingers. Author Mike Tomich, with an endorsement from neurologist and rheumatologist Dr. Amar Sawar, says that early gaming, especially among those under eight-years-old, damages the cartilage of ...

While the name's not as catchy as "Wiiitis," go ahead and add "PlayStation palmar hidradenitis" to the growing list of video game-related maladies. The term was coined soon after a 12-year-old girl's recent visit to a Swiss hospital, where she complained of intensely painful sores on the palms of her hands. Doctors at the Geneva University Hospital deduced that the girl, who had begun ...