Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the arcade or dig out that PS2 researchers now believe video games are as addictive as narcotics.
Technology Review: Show a smoker a lighter, and he or she will get the urge for a cigarette. The same physiological responses that trigger a smoker’s craving may also be at work in the brains of people who spend a lot of time playing video games, researchers say. And that could add more fuel to the long and heated argument over whether video games are hazardously addictive.