
“Breaking news” everyone, there are people addicted to World of Warcraft and other MMORPGs. Shocking, I know. Those of you with subscriptions to an MMORPG (especially you WoW players) could be suffereing from computer game addiction and not even be aware of it (although, most of the addicts I know happily admit to it). Orzack is a clinical pyschologist and also happens to run one of the few outpatient clinics in the US that provides specific treatment for video game addiction. Believing that over 40% of World of Warcraft players are addicted, Orzack goes on to say that there is little difference between drug use, excessive gambling and gaming addiction.
Read more: Interview with Dr. Maressa Orzack (Via Joystiq)



Delicious this
10:01 pm CEST on August 9th, 2006
Uhhhh, Nevermind that free trial for Eve-Online at the bottom left there folks, nothing to see there.
10:39 pm CEST on August 9th, 2006
No time to read that blog got a raid coming up :p