Gaming Disorder

• Quebec judge authorizes class-action lawsuit against ‘addictive’ Fortnite video game

  Justice Sylvain Lussier issued the ruling on Wednesday after hearing arguments in July regarding the 2019 class-action request from three parents.

  Canada

  Dec 8, 2022
  
• Gamer charged after alleged assault of pregnant woman streamed online

  A man that refused to stop playing Fortnite has been charged with the alleged assault of a 21-year-old woman after streaming the altercation online.

  Crime

  Dec 11, 2018
  
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• Video game addiction listed as a mental health problem by WHO

  Compulsive video-gaming is now listed as a mental health issue in the eyes of the World Health Organization.

  Health

  Jun 18, 2018
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• Video game addiction to be named a mental health disorder

  Parents were right. In 2018, the World Health Organization plans to make obsessive video game playing a mental health disorder.

  Health

  Dec 28, 2017
• Gaming disorder could soon be a mental health condition, according to WHO

  For the first time, the WHO is set to include a "gaming disorder" on its list of mental health conditions for its 11th International Classification of Disease (ICD) guidelines.

  Dec 28, 2017