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 ...

Video game addiction is not an official diagnosis, but studies estimate eight per cent of all children and teens are affected. Researchers are just starting to address questions like what seems to ...

Video game addiction is a contentious subject. Once the source of scaremongering tales about parents playing for days while their children starved, there’s now some denial that it’s a problem at ...

He suspects the DSM will eventually include video game addiction as well, although the process to update the guidelines moves slowly. The last update in 2013 was 14 years in the making.

While playing video games is a fun pastime, there is a growing concern that spending too much time playing video games is related to negative developmental outcomes and can become an addiction. A ...

If there’s one game that everyone’s worrying about at the moment, it’s Fortnite.It’s understandable in a way – at face value, it seems like some sort of hellish cartoon nightmare. You ...

Video game addiction is real, rare, and poorly understood. The World Health Organization now recognizes “gaming disorder.” It’s a controversial, but some argue necessary, classification.

Cam Adair finally realised that his addiction to video games was out of control when it made him consider ending his life. "I struggled with it for 10 years," he says.

Up to 90 percent of American youngsters play video games and as many as 15 percent of them — more than 5 million kids — may be addicted, according to data cited in the AMA council’s report.

If a group of them got together online to play a game such as Fortnite, some might play the game but others may be there just to chat and hang out, not necessarily even playing the game.

Video game addiction, now a WHO-recognised illness, seeks a treatment Find out what’s new on ST website and app. One of the symptoms include a lack of control over the impulse to play video games.