In 2015 about 10 news articles / day were written about gaming addiction

Dec 14, 2015

In 2015 about 10 news articles / day were written about gaming addiction The project launched today and I wanted to get some idea of how popular gaming addiction is as an idea. Turning to Google Trends I found something kind of amazing. There were have been at least 3,665 articles published about gaming addiction in the past 12 months. That's About 72 articles (sd = 15) a week, or 10 a day! I find this amazing given that nearly all existing research on this topic is behind paywalls and uses closed-source datasets. Data is here.

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How Serious is Internet Gaming Addiction?

University of Oxford

Billions of hours are spent every week playing online video and computer games. This study aims to estimate the prevalence of addiction to these games in the general population, calculate its stability over time, and quantify what influence, if any, it has on mental and physical health.

The data and insights generated by this study will inform the public, scientists, and health practitioners. It will provide useful evidence to help determine if gaming addiction is an real psychiatric disorder.