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Take Cover! BBC Aims Crosshairs at 'Addictive' Video Games
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Posted by Donster on: 2010-12-01 16:17:40 151
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Monday's Panorama ain't going to be pretty
Oh dear, folks. Video games are in the dock again - on prime time BBC One.
Auntie's respected investigative programme Panorama looks set to vilify some of the industry's biggest releases on Monday evening, in a documentary entitled: 'Addicted to Games?'.
No need to check the calendar, Blizzard: That's the night World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm launches.
The Beeb promises to "reveal the hidden psychological devices in games that are designed to keep us coming back for more". (The creators of MorphX must have missed those out.)
Panorama reporter Raphael Rowe will "hear from youngsters who've dropped out of school and university to play games for anything up to 21 hours a day" and who "describe their obsessive gaming as an addiction".
He also promises to "meet leading experts calling for more independent research into this controversial subject".
A fiver at least one of them works for a clinic that accepts money to treat video games 'addiction'.
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