StarCraft remained popular for years following its debut in 1998. It has been one of the top real-time strategy choices for extremely hardcore and professional gamers. These gamers take StarCraft very seriously. If you’ve seen videos of gamers engaged in an online match, you already know how incredibly focused they can be. Their fingers move so fast, you could swear the video was being sped up. However there is a problem with videogame addiction in Korea. Some gamers are known to literally play themselves to death. This prompted South Korean psychiatrists to figure out a way to treat videogame addiction.

The Lancashire Evening Post reports videogame addiction is taking over the UK at an alarming rate. Its studies have shown more young people are skipping school and stealing money in order to support their habit. It even has an “expert” that declares two hours of gaming is the equivalent to doing a line of cocaine. As usual, parents are in no way responsible.

A London clinic has now opened the UK’s first rehab for children addiction to the Internet and computer games. The Capio Nightingale Hospital will treat children whose technology addiction places their health at risk.

Children as young as 12 are eligible to enter the program which will have them quitting computers “cold turkey,” as it were…

Lately I’ve heard a debate of which is a better game. Is Fallout 3 better than Far Cry 2 or vice versa? Simply stated, Fallout 3 is the better, more solid game…

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It seems the US may not be the only country with anti-video game crusaders.

Ananova reports that a 13-year-old Italian boy has been diagnosed with “PlayStation Addiction.” Curiously, the diagnosis did not come from the doctors at the hospital who treated the boy but by a local Italian politician named Antonio Buccoliero (a Regional Councilor of Puglia, Italy). According to Ananova, Buccoliero said, “They eventually managed to take care of him once they understood that this was a strange kind of mental detachment connected to his Playstation.”

That “mental detachment” was thought to be a stroke or severe brain disorder at first when…