Video Games, an Addiction

While trying to find a focus for the research I've been doing I found that two topics within the video games and your social life subject dominate most research. You can look at all the evidence on whether or not video games will increase aggressive and violent behavior, or you can look at whether or not video games are a real addiction. Both of these topics fit within the subject so I think touching on both of them to a certain extent will be the best for this paper. This video skims the surface of the video games being an addiction topic. It is a good overview and gives a lot of information. Towards the end of the video there is a link for olganon.org which is a self-help website to help people that feel they are addicted. The creation of frequently used websites like this one shows the relevance of this topic especially for the near future when online gaming is easily accessible and increasingly popular with younger people. Will the future yield more obvious results from this ‘problem’? Or, is this just a passing thing. While video games become more and more advanced with evolutions similar to Wi-Fi on a touch iPod, when will online gaming be on a handheld device or create another avenue of portability making it even easier to not break from gaming to participate in real life?