Anthony Rosnar’s “IRL In Real Life” is a look into how he his virtual habit took over his actual life, and how he dealt with it.

Quinn Pitcock, self described recovering video game addict and former defensive end, was unceremonously cut by the Seattle Seahawks this past Saturday.

According to Tim Chang, Principal at Norwest Venture Partners (a financial backer of social mobile game creators), you might as well have been shooting heroin into your arms every time you squashed a Goomba …

This post was originally going to be a review, but as Avatar’s plot unfolded, it became clear to me that I could no longer put off discussing a year long personal struggle in my life that may prove helpful to others out there going through a similar situation. Some of the readers may have noticed [...]

An article from a Southern Utah news website highlights gaming addiction in kids and talks about how dangerous it can be.

Today’s episode of the Dr. Phil show, titled “Virtual Chaos”, addresses video game addiction, and it isn’t pretty. The featured guests spend 80 hours a week on average playing “the game” (which is on more than one occasion revealed to be World of Warcraft), abandoning their jobs, ignoring their wives, and neglecting their children. One [...]

Mark Wahlberg, the actor slated to play Max Payne in the upcoming film based on the popular video game franchise, states that he has not played, and will not play the video game. Why? Because he says he has an addictive personality, and that, combined with his other adult responsibilities, simply won’t mesh well. In [...]

Dr. Jerald Block is a psychiatrist who specialises in helping people get over their addiction to a wide number of things, one of which is games. He argued recently in the American Journal of Psychiatry that “Internet Addiction” should become a professionally used term.