video game addiction

"Examines the history of video game addiction, explores controversies in the video game industry, and discusses the . . . advances of gaming disorder treatment and solutions"--Amazon.

Josh discovers a virtual town that is eerily similar to his own.

On January 31, 2012, in an internet cafe on the outskirts of New Taipei City, Taiwan, 23-year-old student Chen Rong-yu was found dead at his keyboard while the video game he had been playing for three days straight continued to flash on the screen in front of his corpse. As Simon Parkin reconstructs what happened that night, he begins a journey that takes him around the world in search of answers: What is it about video games that inspires such tremendous acts of endurance and obsession? Why do we lose our sense of time and reality within this medium, arguably more than any other? And what is it about video games that often proves compelling, comforting and irresistible to the human mind? Simon Parkin meets the players and game developers at the frontline of virtual extremism.

Examines the issues surrounding the playing of video games, including the potential harms and benefits they offer.

Jasper learns to recognize and overcome his video game addiction.

Explores how and why gamers become addicted to the virtual worlds created by video game designers, and discusses the negative and positive ways that video games affect minds and bodies.

Ryan Van Cleave, a college professor, husband, and father, describes his struggle with an addiction to video games that caused him to neglect his family and almost ruin his life, providing advice and resources for readers affected by this addiction.

An illustrated introduction to the problems associated with an game addiction for adolescents, providing quizzes and tips to recognize when gaming has become a problem, and offering advice to overcome addictions to console, handheld, and online games.