or many years, parents have raised concerns that their children might be addicted to video games.
The emergence of Fortnite and other online games has since seen gaming addiction in young children and teens spiral.
Now, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has officially added video game addiction — characterised by "a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour" that "takes precedence over other life interests" — to their International Classification of Diseases (ICD) database.
Read the full article on NZHerald.
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