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School Kid Reports on Game Addiction, Phones Nintendo

By Andrew Eisen

As part of an annual BBC project where school kids get to produce their own news reports, William (last name not provided) from Tendring Technology College in Essex decided to research video game addiction.  What did his research entail?  Interviews with:

-His school guidance counselor: 'It's estimated that 3/5 of all under sixteens actually have some sort of addiction to a gaming machine.'

-A classmate: '[I play video games] usually six or seven [hours per day] because there's so much to do.  That's what average people do...  It's not like thirty or forty years ago when people used to play outside.'

-And his mom: '[Game addiction] does effect family life, yes, because it is a struggle to get you out of your room.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).