June 21 (Reuters) - When my twenty-something son was a teenager, there was a period when he played video games for hours on end, bristling when we told him to stop. Which is why I can relate to ...

Summer break is here, which means school is out, no more homework, and it’s time to have fun. The lack of routine and scheduled activities, however, may pose a serious risk for children who fill that ...

Editor's take: In 2019, the World Health Organization finally acknowledged that video game addiction is real. Although they intentionally avoid calling it that, opting for the more politically correct ...

There may be no such thing as internet gaming addiction. People play excessively not because they are hooked on gaming itself, but because they feel unhappy about other areas of their life, according ...

A CyberPeace report raises alarms over online gaming's impact on children, citing risks of addiction and exploitation. It ...

Researchers found that adolescents with more symptoms of gaming addiction showed lower brain activity in the region involved in decision-making and reward processing; this blunted response to reward ...

Lawsuit accuses major gaming companies of enabling video game addiction. Allegations include negligence and deceptive practices. Get the strategy to turn September’s volatility into 10x trades → The ...

From Pong and Pac-Man to Minecraft and Fortnight, video games have always been a lot of fun. Sometimes, however, gamers become fixated, compulsive or — worse — spiral into a full-blown gaming disorder ...

Apple and Google have been let off the hook, for now, in a products liability suit stemming from a child's alleged gaming addiction for offering the games in their virtual stores, a federal judge in ...