gaming addiction
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Why One Professor Believes Video Game And Tech Addiction Is A Myth
6Since the introduction of gaming addiction into the World Health Organisation’s list of disorders, the discussion around addiction has cropped up more in mainstream media. This week, one professor has put forward a fairly strong view: that technology addiction is a myth.
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I Kept Playing: The Costs Of My Gaming Addiction
“I hated level 40,” she said with a sigh. It was the first time we’d spoken in eight years, and she had never forgotten the night I spurned her advances in favour of gaining a level in EverQuest.
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Could You Live In An Internet Cafe For Six Years? This Guy Has (And Continues To Do So)
Two months sounds like a long time to live at an internet cafe to game, but it pales in comparison to the story of one “Li Meng”, a university graduate who has spent the last “five or six years” playing games at a cafe in China.
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SOGS Test: Are You a Problem Gamer?
Nick Xenophon, anti-pokie senator, encourages gambling addicts to take the SOGS (South Oaks Gambling Screen) to identify possible gambling problems. He also believes video/arcade games that display gambling features could be a danger. But there’s no SOGS test for gamers – until now!