For the first time, the world health organization will classify gaming disorder in its international classification of diseases. There's definitely some evidence that they can be compulsive. People who've playd games will experience the sensation of thinking, ok, just five more minutes, and then suddenly you turn around a its three in the morning.
The lightning-fast spread of a seemingly milder coronavirus variant may represent a shift from pandemic to endemic; we ask how that would change global responses. Concern about video-game addictiveness is as old as video games themselves—but the business models of modern gaming may be magnifying the problem. And newly publicised photographs shed light on Bangladesh’s brutal war for independence.
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