{initVideoPlayer("http://media.gamearena.com.au/gamearena/video/reviews/Unethical_Game_Design-H264_MOV_1280x720_16x9.medium.mp4","false",61850,309,521,"","GA_embed_video_61850")} You might remember Jeremy ‘Junglist’ Ray from his stint as guest Kotaku Editor late last year, or from ABC’s Good Game, but now he’s doing his own thing — the 5 Inch Floppy — and today he’s turned his attention to video game addiction. In the wake of mainstream press regarding the possible inclusion of video game addiction into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Junglist takes a great in-depth look into the issue. More »
A group of adolescents interred at an internet addiction boot camp rose up against their oppressors last week, restraining their supervisor and fleeing the facility to taste sweet, sweet freedom. At least until their parents sent them back. More »
Have you ever spent so much time playing a video game that you felt like a caged rat? That means it’s working. Cracked’s David Wong takes a serious look at how and why our video games won’t let us go. More »
Yesterday I posted an article titled I Kept Playing – The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction.” The response from our readers has been so overwhelming that I felt I should take the time to address it. More »
The Boston Globe has an intriguing question and answer session up with Dr. Jerald Block, who specialises in online video game addiction.
Block, a psychiatrist in Portland, Ore., recently wrote an editorial in the American Journal of Psychiatry arguing that Internet Addiction should become a new diagnostic term.
It’s interesting to read his thoughts and them to compare it to the things being said by the psychiatrists I interviewed back in 1999 when I wrote a story about how researchers think that Internet and Sex addiction are very similar. Back then a David Greenfield, director for the Centre of Internet Studies, told me that the Internet was addictive and that that particular form of addiction was nearing a national epidemic… yet somehow we survived.
