Nearly anywhere you go, it’s easy to find children and adults alike transfixed by their phones, and while texting and social media certainly claim a big part of that attention, increasingly it’s ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized gaming disorder as a new mental health condition. The United Nations health agency defines gaming disorder as a pattern of behavior where a person ...

The international health community has decided that if you play video games like Fortnite or World of Warcraft a lot, you might suffer from a mental-health issue: Gaming Disorder. It’s a behavioral ...

The World Health Organization will now consider "gaming disorder" as a mental health condition Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to ...

Who believes that playing video games can become a mental health disorder? Yes, the World Health Organization, that's WHO will in 2018. "Gaming disorder" isn't a game or the name of a game. And it isn ...

Gaming disorder, which basically boils down to video game addiction, was officially recognized by the World Health Organization Saturday. After a year and a half of deliberation on the new revision of ...

An addiction to playing video or online games, now an official medical diagnosis called gaming disorder, is calling attention to the challenges some youth face in curtailing their gaming habits. The ...

Video game addiction is a term that has been used for years by parents and mental health professionals who believe that it’s a real disorder. Now, there’s more weight behind their argument: The World ...

Gaming can indeed be addictive, but is it a mental health condition? Well, the World Health Organization (WHO) has now declared that gaming disorder is indeed a thing. The move came after the ...

The World Health Organization is adding “gaming disorder” to its globally recognized compendium of medical conditions and diagnoses, the agency announced Monday — despite the objections of the video ...

The World Health Organization lists “hazardous gaming” and “gaming disorder” as potential problems “due to substance use or addictive behavior” in a newly proposed draft update of its widely used ...