Filed under: Culture, RTS, Starcraft II
Hey, we have all been there on playing games until the wee hours of the morning. But there’s still some debate on whether or not you can become medically addicted to playing games. Now Wired reports that a Korean study claims to show that game “addition” can be tempered with drugs.
The study comes from the Department of Psychiatry at Chung Ang University, College of Medicine where researchers gave the antidepressant drug Bupropion to 11 very active StarCraft players. After a six week trial period, the researchers claim that the StarCraft players who were given the drug cut their StarCraft playtime by 35.5 percent. Of course these players could in fact be depressed already and turned to playing StarCraft because of it. So let’s just say the jury is still out on the whole game “addition” theory.
[Via Joystiq]
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