Video gaming can be addictive in the same way as cocaine or gambling, the World Health Organization said Monday in a much anticipated update of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11).

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Black Friday is upon us and the holiday gift giving season. Video games and video game consoles are some of the most popular gifts to buy. Although, they can be addictive.

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

When it comes to pathological videogaming habits, we may have been too quick to blame games and their design, rather than considering the wider context of compulsive gamers' lives. That's according to ...

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 ...

As of today, there is a wealth of options in the PS Plus Catalog, PlayStation's flagship subscription service and a rival to the frankly far superior Xbox Game Pass. However, when you have this much ...

You drove the conversation toward negative birth rates which is why everyone's focusing on it in your comments. And being a complete shut-in in Japan isn't quite the same as here since by default in ...

People in China under the age of 18 will only be allowed to play video games between 8pm and 9pm on Fridays, weekends and on public holidays, under new rules introduced this week. China’s state media ...

ArenaX Labs co-founder Wei Xie — the company behind AI battle training game AI Arena — believes artificial intelligence could help smaller game companies compete against the industry giants. But he ...

Recently, Instagram unveiled new policies designed to address what we all see: teenagers suffering the adverse effects of addictive social media apps. The new policies include making teen accounts ...