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 ...

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.

The first of more than a dozen similar video game addiction suits was voluntarily dismissed last week, though its (rather ignominious) end didn’t test the litigation’s central theories.

An Arkansas family is suing a multitude of video game companies, including Activision Blizzard, Microsoft, and Epic, accusing them of enabling game addiction in minors. According to a report from ...