video-game addiction

The growing issue of video-game addiction: "Many people have had a brush with video-game obsession, whether it was Super Mario 3 instead of homework in Grade 5, or Call of Duty: Black Ops – all of last weekend.

However, for a growing number video-game addiction is a serious problem.

Video game audiences have ballooned in recent years thanks to advances in computer technology, the advent of online gaming, and an adapting games industry whose games engage individuals in extended gameplay, said Bruce Alexander, an expert on addiction from Simon Fraser University.

Recent studies have shown that around nine per cent of school-aged children in several countries, including the United States., show unhealthy video-gaming behaviour."

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