Ever since Yoon Hyuk-joo, a 16-year-old in Seoul, started playing the popular computer game StarCraft eight years ago, studying has taken the backseat. For six hours every day in dim, smoky Internet ...

Video games have become a global phenomenon, offering immersive entertainment and fostering vibrant online communities. However, for some individuals, gaming can evolve from a fun pastime into an ...

In their exploration of the data from the computer game streaming platform Steam, Manchanda and Branco were able to look at consumption and addictive behavior objectively. "To consider a person ...

At his lowest ebb Edward Bartlett was playing video games 20 hours a day. Now he goes birdwatching.

A gaming disorder, sometimes referred to as “video game addiction,” is a pattern of game-playing behavior—involving online gaming or offline video games—that is difficult to control and that continues ...

Earlier this year, I was interviewed about the addictiveness of the computerized card game solitaire (also known as Klondike and Patience). The "hook" for the article (no pun intended) was that May 22 ...

It’s hard to talk about addiction. The American war on drugs has dedicated over half a century to treating addiction like a crime rather than a disease—portraying drug abuse as a moral failing instead ...