computer addiction

References: 135 Reprinted with permission (Marc van Tol, April 2010) are Extreme Gamers” (NPD, 2008). Extreme gamers play an average of 45 hours per week. A press release by the same firm two years later stated that this percentage had increased reported that the group of extreme gamers had grown to four percent, emphasizing that “…extreme gamers spend two full days per week playing video games” (NPD, 2010). a motion controllable console system aimed at more casual gaming audiences (Nuttal, 2006). genres made a transition to incorporate the new online multiplayer options. Examples include first-person shooters such as Counterstrike (1999) or real-time strategy games such as Starcraft (1998) interesting, however, are the various newly-emerging game genres which were entirely based upon online and internet enabled playing, such as Unreal Tournament (2000) of persistent virtual worlds such as Everquest (1999), World of Warcraft (2004), and numerous small internet browser-based games. Table 1.1 provides an overview of the three main modes of game playing that fits well with the current situation on the video game market (Van Rooij, Schoenmakers, Meerkerk, & Van de Mheen, 2008, 2009).