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China rolling out even stricter rules for minors playing video games News

China rolling out even stricter rules for minors playing video games

Part of a moral crisis over addiction concerns

UK's NHS mental health boss slams video game loot boxes News

UK's NHS mental health boss slams video game loot boxes

"Frankly no company should be setting kids up for addiction by teaching them to gamble on the content of these loot boxes"

Devolver's Wilson says it's time to take more responsibility about video game addiction News

Devolver's Wilson says it's time to take more responsibility about video game addiction

"Are we, collectively, gonna get our shit together and be intentional about what we're feeding our friends, ourselves, the general public, young people at their most vulnerable state?"

UK academics find that obsessive gaming isn't a clinical disorder News

UK academics find that obsessive gaming isn't a clinical disorder

Oxford Internet Institute says that obsessive play is tied to other factors

Epic settles Fortnite cheating suit, faces another from Canadian law firm over addiction concerns News

Epic settles Fortnite cheating suit, faces another from Canadian law firm over addiction concerns

Montreal-based Calex Légal says game was designed to be "as addictive as possible"

UKIE's Twist: Industry needs to step back and keep an eye on evolution of 'gaming disorder' term News

UKIE's Twist: Industry needs to step back and keep an eye on evolution of 'gaming disorder' term

"We have such an important role in supplementing efforts to resolve one of the defining public health challenges of our age"

ESA once again disputes that video games are addictive News

ESA once again disputes that video games are addictive

Toes the line that people who play to excess have other issues they need to treat

UK Parliament looking into rise of "immersive and addictive" tech News

UK Parliament looking into rise of "immersive and addictive" tech

"We have the opportunity now to shape that development, setting an agenda that benefits our economy and how we spend our leisure time, while ensuring the right safeguards are built in"

Sega wants to improve work-life balance for employees Job News

Sega wants to improve work-life balance for employees

Japanese publisher also interested in addressing addiction

Report claims more than half of parents let children play 18-rated games News

Report claims more than half of parents let children play 18-rated games

Childcare.co.uk of more than 2,000 parents yields startling but not surprising results

Video game addiction officially added to WHO disease list News

Video game addiction officially added to WHO disease list

And global trade bodies are not happy

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