Games without multiplayer don't do well? Yeah, she's right. Bioshock was a flop. F.E.A.R. was a flop. Half Life 2 and it's Episodes are all flops. That Greaves girl is an idiot.
And as far as I'm concerned, the only game that people get addicted to, out side of Korea, is WoW. Which we all know truly blows.

Oh and *videogames. Haha- They had Goldeneye 007 at the end. Classic.

Adding video to channels (Videogames) - requested by MarineGunrock.

I've been addicted to many games over the years with varying levels of severity. Anyone remember the first settlers game? I used to turn that off at 5am, get into bed, close my eyes and still be able to see the little blue settlers burned into my retinas...

Game café owner:
Customer, you've been gaming for 24 hours, you should eat and sleep for a while..

Honestly, I started hanging out at videosift when I decided to go cold turkey on my gaming addiction. These "addicts" they talk about playing for 20 or 30 hours a week sound like light-weights. I've had weeks when I had maybe 30-40 hours of sleeping and every other second was in front of a WoW screen (admittedly, that was a special week when I didn't have a lot of my normal obligations, but I've pushed it past sanity for years). I ruined friendships, I hurt myself financially, and I hurt my family.

I've given up games in the past, and I've always gone back. I hope I don't this time.

I think anyone who doesn't think gaming can be addictive is either in denial or just hasn't encountered the phenomenon.

Or we're just stronger.

I used to love to play as much video games as I could...and then I got into guitar.

I'm pretty darn addicted to the internet though. D:

Right now I almost feel addicted to Team Fortress 2. I just can't stop playing.

In the past I was addicted to Quake 2 for a time. In my 2nd year of university I got Quake 2 for Xmas. After a month playing the solo game I went online and spent most of February 1998 drinking coffee and soda, eating fast food and donuts, and becoming an expert Quake 2 player. I don't think I went to more than a couple classes, and I'd be sketching Quake 2 drawings instead of taking notes, and I'd always get the urge to flee whenever I saw green in the corner of my vision -- look out, BFG! Then I got into working out and remembered I was at university surrounded by girls, and that lessened the addiction a bit, althought it basically split my focus between working out, girls, and video games. Then when I left town to go home for the summer I had to return my roommate's extra 3D card, and I wasn't about to play it in software mode. At the end of summer I bought myself a 3D accelerator and got back into the game with moderation.

I got addicted to Quake 3 in winter 2000/2001. For around two months it was all I wanted to think about. I got into a hardcore routine of buying 2 or 3 large coffees and sitting down for 6-hour ass-kicking sessions on CTF4 (space capture the flag).

Then in summer of 2001 I got pretty addicted to Tribes 2, and by then I had invested in real gaming hardware like a $500 video card, surround speakers, 19 inch monitor (pretty big back then). I'd stay up all night, enjoying myself immensely, playing for up to 10 hours at a time once or twice. I think Tribes 2 is probably still the most fun I've ever had playing video games.

Other multiplayer games I've been near-addicted to include Rainbow Six, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2, and Aliens Vs Predator 2 (highly underrated!).

These days I lay out a lot of $ for gaming hardware (4GB RAM, X1950XTX CF Master with X1900XTX in crossfire, X-Fi Platinum, Dell 3007 WFP, Logitech Z5000, etc.. okay CPU is a generation behind.. X2 4400+), which can mostly be expensed to business, but which I would probably have anyways for hardcore gaming. Sorry for the e-peen but I love to talk gaming hardware and share gaming nostalgia.

I expect I will soon be addicted to Crysis.

Oh, I WILL be that guy from Korea that died from playing Star Craft, only I'm white and playing Crysis. Check out the videogames Talk on it. I expect that to blow up soon.

I don't like how the term 'addiction' is tossed around these days. By giving it a fancy, medical-sounding term, it just seems to pass the blame. Whatever happened to "doesn't prioritize well?"

Real life (e.g., job) gets in the way to be addicted.

I enjoy videogames, I would play them a lot but I've had this theory that has run my life for years now; 'The only thing I can control in life is myself.' So I limit myself to no more then an hour and a half of time with videogames a day. Otherwise I'm sure I'd be out of control, and I hate not having control over the only thing I can control in life.

/agree with Ant.

My husband and I both play WoW, HL, Counterstrike, and Team Fortress, but we do that instead of plopping our butts on the couch and watching American Idol every night. Neither of them are particularly healthy things to do, but we've picked our poison and enjoy it. We both still hold down full time jobs, the cats still get fed, the lawn gets mowed, and we have social lives.

(Besides, I kinda like squicking folks and work who say, "So, did you see who got booted from the island last night?" by responding, "No, but we did kill a dragon, and I got an awesome wand..." )

Game addiction is real... MMO's are mine... Star Wars Galaxies, and WOW, have caused serious heart-ache for my real life. I quit finally, now I only play xbox games, but those you can step away and its no big deal.

go to work 9 hours away from home. 6 ish hours of sleep a night. 3 - 3 and a half hours a night playing games. would play more but i have a Wife and a son to worry about. In the old days i could clear about 6 hours straight on games with a 30 minute break then another 4 hours or more if i had nothing to do the next day. This was before MMO's even existed. Its better than turning your brain off to watch tv for a couple hours a night. Your still doing something rather than vegging out. I dont think its even a small problem unless you already have something wrong with you.

Ahh, good old Civilisation. Just... one... more... turn...