video game addiction

South Korea To Shut Some Video Games Off For Six Hours Every Nig...

Techdirt  Fri, 04/16/2010 - 04:30

For quite some time, authorities in South Korea have contended that a lot of kids there are addicted to the internet.

One of the more misguided steps take to try and "cure" these kids was to put them in a boot camp where they couldn't use computers, but apparently that effort failed.


 

Internet Addiction Might Actually Get Recognized By The Official...

Techdirt  Wed, 02/24/2010 - 12:10

Over the last decade or so, there's been something of an... well... addiction to calling any sort of overuse of a product an addiction.


 

VIDEO: iPhone App Addiction and “Apping” Make the Local News

Mashable!  Tue, 10/13/2009 - 23:53

While we’ve heard of Internet addiction and video game addiction (World of Warcraft especially), we’ve definitely never heard of iPhone app addiction.