James Lee

James Lee

28/04/2009 @ 08:49

ESA disputes "meaningless" videogame addiction study

The Entertainment Software Association has delivered a letter of criticism to Dr Robert Kail, editor of Psychological Science - in which a study on videogame addiction was recently published, reporting that 8 per cent of 8 to 18 year-olds exhibited "pathological" patterns of gaming.

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