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The fact a pleasurable behaviour is done to excess does not necessarily mean it's an addiction. PhotoCatcher

Videogame addiction – fact or fantasy?

By Gemma Lucy Smart, University of Sydney

I am a Warcraft widow, an affectionate term given to those who have “lost” a partner to World of Warcraft (WoW) as a result of excessive game-playing. I have first-hand experience of the way games such…
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People have always sent each other letters, but now they can be worth "triple words". Brandice Schnabel

Words With Friends, Draw Something … are you addicted to social gaming?

By David Glance, University of Western Australia

They are everywhere: people in cafés or supermarket queues, staring at their smartphones with determined concentration, occasionally shuffling yellow tiles of letters to use all of them in a killer move…