Video games have become a global phenomenon, offering immersive entertainment and fostering vibrant online communities. However, for some individuals, gaming can evolve from a fun pastime into an ...

S1: I'm Andrew Bracken and this is Screen Time , featuring conversations about technology and kids in today's digital age. My kids are addicted to their screens. It's a common phrase many parents ...

This is half of a pair of articles that highlight the evidence for and against the existence of video game addiction. Read the counter-argument here. For decades, psychologists, parents, and gamers ...

A recent study revealed that gamers who develop a video game addiction in adolescence are the most likely to incur ...

Nearly one in 10 children and teens who play video games may be addicted, according new research published in the journal Psychological Science. After polling kids and teens between the ages of 8 and ...

If you or someone you know is in crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline via call, text or chat. A new study finds that addiction to social media, mobile phones and video games is linked to ...

CONCORD, N.H. — A dark room, head set on, controller in hand, a world flashing across a big screen. Video games are often associated with an escape from reality and immersion into an online world of ...

On Thursday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation heard arguments on whether to combine about two dozen lawsuits alleging children and young adults got addicted to video games. The ...

FROM SOME OF THE STORMS THAT DO HIT. JUST BE AWARE OF THAT. OKAY. GOOD TO KNOW. FROM PHONES TO TABLETS TO TV, KIDS SPEND A LOT OF TIME EACH DAY LOOKING AT SCREENS. NOW KOAT, UNM HEALTH EXPERT DOCTOR ...

Four months into relocating its legal headquarters to Nevada, Roblox has been sued in federal court. The lawsuit alleges that the company put “profits over safety,” which led to a 12-year-old child, ...

A gaming disorder, sometimes referred to as “video game addiction,” is a pattern of game-playing behavior—involving online gaming or offline video games—that is difficult to control and that continues ...