Posts Tagged "addiction"

• Village Gamer Reviews Video Game Play and Addiction

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  Check out this super-duper-mega-awesome review of Video Game Play and Addiction from the Village Gamer.
  /me doing a dance.
   

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• Video Game Play and Addiction wins Silver Medal in the Mom’s Choice Awards

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  Video Game Play and Addiction is the 2009 Silver Recipient for Family & Parenting Resources. I’m only about 3 different types of ecstatic right now )) Here’s a link to the Mom’s Choice Awards website. They should be putting out a press release and official announcement on their site soon.

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• One Story of a Gamer Recognizing Addiction

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  Massively points out a nicely written piece on Kotaku about a gamer who “powerlevels” a character. The story is presented in three parts:

  Part I
  Part II
  Part III

  Powerleveling is a type of service, generally considered against the rules, for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. Many MMOs involve gaining levels as a character progresses through quests [...]

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• Are Games Addictive or Learning Experiences?

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  Whether or not video games are addictive or provide a useful learning environment is a hot topic. It is unfortunate that the term “addiction” is even bandied about. (Yes, it is a part of the title of my book. I explain the wording in the book itself.)
  Nick Yee, Stanford PhD, whose work [...]

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• Alright! A mention on Ars Technica

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  Neat. Video Game Play and Addiction was mentioned on Ars Technica by their gaming guru Ben Kuchera. He specifically mentions and looks at the section about how gamers are different.
  A lot can be said about this topic and some very good literature has been coming out like Beck and Wade’s The Kids are [...]

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