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  1. El diseño que no te suelta

    Hay una pregunta que vale la pena hacerse cada vez que abrimos una aplicación o encendemos la consola: ¿por qué me cuesta tanto parar? La respuesta rápida suele ser «me falta voluntad». La respuesta correcta, según varios estudios recientes, es otra: no se trata de voluntad, se trata de diseño.

    Videojuegos que ya no terminan

    Durante décadas, un videojuego fue un producto cerrado: se compraba, se jugaba, se terminaba. Ese modelo cambió. Hoy buena parte de la industria vive de los llamados «videojuegos como servicio»: títulos que se compran una vez, pero que se actualizan constantemente con temporadas, eventos y recompensas nuevas.

    El engranaje central de este modelo es el pase de batalla. Funciona como una escalera de niveles que se sube jugando durante un período limitado, con premios —armas, trajes, mascotas, monturas— que casi nunca son necesarios para jugar bien, pero que generan una presión social real: todos los demás los tienen, y quedarse sin ellos se siente como quedarse afuera.

    Ahí aparece la pieza clave: la temporada tiene fecha de término. Cuando se acaba, esas recompensas desaparecen para siempre. Ese límite de tiempo fabrica urgencia, y la urgencia fabrica hábito. Algunos juegos incluso premian conectarse todos los días, así que quien no lo hace siente que se está quedando atrás frente a jugadores que ni siquiera conoce.

    Es importante hacer una distinción: no todos los videojuegos funcionan así. El fenómeno es propio de un modelo de negocio específico —el de «juego como servicio»—, no una característica general de jugar. Pero en los títulos que sí lo usan, la lógica es clara: mientras más tiempo pasa una persona conectada, mayor es la probabilidad de que termine gastando dinero para no perderse algo. El tiempo, antes de ser diversión, se convierte en el recurso que la industria busca capturar.

    Las redes sociales, el mismo mecanismo a otra escala

    Cambiemos de pantalla y el patrón se repite. Las redes sociales no están construidas para que las «usemos» un rato y las cerremos; están construidas para que no las cerremos. El académico Francisco Muñoz Romero, de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, lo resume con una idea incómoda: el sistema de medios y redes digitales está diseñado para que vivamos consumiendo, así que hablar de «uso» ya no alcanza para describir lo que ocurre.

    Los números respaldan la sensación de estar atrapados: cerca de un 30% de los jóvenes ha intentado borrar estas aplicaciones de su teléfono, pero casi siempre vuelve a instalarlas a los pocos días. Niños y adolescentes pasan en promedio cuatro horas diarias conectados, recibiendo alrededor de 1.750 piezas de contenido distinto por día, es decir, una cada diez segundos, mezclando noticias, publicidad, entretenimiento y contenido sensible sin ningún filtro entre uno y otro.

    Por qué no es (solo) un problema de voluntad

    Aquí está el punto que más vale la pena subrayar, y que tanto los artículos sobre videojuegos como los que hablan de redes sociales repiten: si esto fuera solo cuestión de fuerza de voluntad, bastaría con «querer» desconectarse. Pero la evidencia muestra que la mayoría de los intentos de alejarse duran días, no meses: la responsabilidad no es de quien no logra desengancharse, sino del sistema que hace casi imposible vivir al margen de él.

    Ambos mundos —el de las temporadas y pases de batalla, y el de los feeds infinitos— comparten los mismos gatillos psicológicos: el miedo a perderse algo que otros sí están viviendo (FOMO), la búsqueda de una recompensa inmediata, la sensación de que hay que terminar una colección o una racha para no dejarla a medias, y el peso de todo el tiempo ya invertido, que hace más difícil soltar aunque la experiencia ya no entregue satisfacción real. No es casualidad que se parezcan: son mecanismos de diseño, no accidentes ni debilidades personales.

    Qué proponen quienes estudian el fenómeno

    La solución no puede recaer únicamente en el individuo. Es un tema de diseño.

    Pero nosotros primero debemos identificar este mecanismo cuando lo vemos.
    Si hay algo en común entre todas estas recomendaciones es que empiezan por lo mismo: entender cómo funciona el sistema. Saber que una temporada está diseñada para generar urgencia, que un feed no tiene fin porque fue construido así, que el impulso de «una vuelta más» no es casualidad sino ingeniería, ya cambia la relación que se tiene con la pantalla.

    No se trata de culpar a quien juega o a quien se queda pegado revisando el teléfono. Se trata de reconocer que la batalla contra el diseño no se gana solo con voluntad, sino con información, límites conscientes y, sobre todo, con la exigencia de que quienes construyen estos sistemas —empresas, reguladores, escuelas— asuman su parte de la responsabilidad. El tiempo es el recurso en juego, y saber que hay alguien diseñando para quitárnoslo es el primer paso para decidir cuánto estamos dispuestos a ceder.
     

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  2. DATE: May 19, 2026 at 04:00PM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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    TITLE: More than 6% of young adults suffer from Internet Gaming Disorder, global study reveals

    URL: psypost.org/more-than-6-of-you

    A meta-analysis of studies on Internet Gaming Disorder found that this condition is, on average, present in 6.1% of young adults. The prevalence was higher in gamer-only samples (8.1%) compared to samples that included both gamers and non-gamers. The paper was published in Addictive Behaviors.

    Internet Gaming Disorder is a pattern of excessive or poorly controlled video game playing that causes significant problems in a person’s life. It involves more than simply enjoying games or playing them often. A person with this disorder thinks about gaming constantly, feels restless or irritable when unable to play, and experiences a need to spend more and more time gaming to feel satisfied.

    They may try to reduce gaming but repeatedly fail. As the disorder progresses, gaming slowly begins to replace school, work, sleep, exercise, hobbies, or relationships. Some people continue gaming even after it causes serious conflicts, poor performance, or emotional distress. Internet Gaming Disorder is especially concerning when gaming becomes a way to escape problems while simultaneously creating even bigger problems in daily life. The key issue in diagnosis is the loss of control and the harm that gaming leads to, rather than the raw number of hours a person spends gaming.

    Study author Júlia Gisbert-Perez and her colleagues note that different studies tend to report varying prevalences of Internet Gaming Disorder among young adults, a demographic group highly vulnerable to this disorder due to the stress of transitioning to independence. With this in mind, they conducted a meta-analytic study aiming to integrate the findings of previous research to establish just how frequent this disorder is among individuals in this demographic.

    The study authors searched the scientific research databases Web of Science (Core Collection), Scopus, and PsychInfo. They used search terms including “internet gaming disorder,” “online games addiction,” “problematic gaming behav*,” “pathologic video game use,” or “digital game addiction,” along with terms like “emerg* adult*,” “young adult*,” “university,” “college,” or “youth.” They looked for studies that reported a prevalence figure for Internet Gaming Disorder, comprised a sample of participants between 18 and 35 years of age, provided original empirical data, and were published in English or Spanish.

    The search initially resulted in 1,411 publications. After screening and detailed inspection, they found 93 studies that met their criteria. Taken together, these studies included 149,601 participants. Their average age was 23-24 years old, and 51% of them were women.

    The meta-analytic integration of the results from these studies showed that the pooled prevalence of Internet Gaming Disorder among young adults was 6.1%. Prevalence was higher in samples that consisted solely of gamers (8.1%), while it was 5.47% in mixed samples that included both gamers and non-gamers.

    Further analyses revealed that the reported prevalence heavily depended on the specific diagnostic instrument used to assess the symptoms. Furthermore, prevalence rates tended to be artificially higher in studies with smaller sample sizes or those deemed to have a “high risk of bias.” Prevalence also might have been lower in samples containing more female participants, but the difference was not quite strong enough to pass the needed statistical thresholds.

    Interestingly, when looking exclusively at the “gamer-only” samples, the researchers found that the prevalence of the disorder has been steadily increasing in recent years. The authors suggest this could be driven by the rise of competitive gaming platforms or the incorporation of predatory microtransactions and “loot boxes” in contemporary video games.

    “These findings indicate that IGD [Internet Gaming Disorder] is more prevalent among young adults than in the general population, especially among gamers. The variability observed across studies highlights the need for methodological consistency and the use of validated diagnostic tools to improve comparability and inform prevention and intervention strategies,” the study authors concluded.

    The study contributes to the scientific knowledge surrounding Internet Gaming Disorder. However, the study authors note that their search strategy might have missed some studies that reported age only in numerical terms, rather than using keywords like “young adults.”

    Additionally, the authors report that their statistical analyses indicated a significant asymmetry in the published prevalences. Because scientific journals tend to favor publishing “significant” or shocking findings, it is highly likely that studies finding exceptionally high rates of gaming addiction were published, while studies finding low or unremarkable rates were never published (a phenomenon known as publication bias). This bias could have artificially distorted the overall 6.1% estimate, meaning the true prevalence might be slightly lower.

    The paper, “Prevalence of Internet gaming disorder in young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis,” was authored by Júlia Gisbert-Perez, Claudio Longobardi, Manuel Martí-Vilar, Sofia Mastrokoukou, and Laura Badenes-Ribera.

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  3. ‘Gaming addiction can erase real identity’

    BENGALURU: Following the tragic death of three minor sisters who jumped from their 9th floor apartment in Ghaziabad…
    #NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #gamingaddiction #Health #MentalHealth #OnlineGaming #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/uk/416155/

  4. Nghiện game: MCN làm từ "thành phần phụ" như daily, battle pass, FOMO... khiến người dùng khó từ bỏ. Ý tưởng đột phá: Lật ngược cơ chế này để KỈN bằng cách "thành tích" từ KHÔNG chơi game. Công cụ cần: chặn nghiêm ngặt, theo dõi tiến trình, hỗ trợ khủng hoảng & cộng đồng trách nhiệm. #NghiệnGame #ThiếtKếLôiKéo #SứcKhỏeTâmLý #DigitalWellness #GamingAddiction #MentalHealth #ProductivityHack #TechAddiction

    (P/s: Bạn đã thử phương pháp nào thoát nghiện hiệu quả chưa?)

    reddit.com/r/Sa

  5. Xbox Game Pass just dropped Cloverpit, a haunting roguelike slot machine game that's already devouring players' time.

    With 39 games lined up for 2026, the backlog nightmare is real.

    Ready to lose yourself?

    #XboxGamePass #GamingAddiction

    screenrant.com/xbox-game-pass-

  6. My new study examines which World Health Organization diagnostic criteria for #gambling and #gaming disorder may play a more central (core) or less central (peripheral) role in high-risk individuals.

    tl;dr: core criteria for both disorders are very similar (with a small difference); 2) the most prominent symptom for both disorders is the experience of significant distress/functional impairments; and 3) although endorsing all criteria is a requirement for diagnosis, not all criteria are made equal.

    Free access from here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.120

    #gamblingdisorder #gamingdisorder #machinelearning #problemgambling #gamingaddiction

  7. Lời khai gây sốc: Nghi phạm Lê Sỹ Tùng thừa nhận sát hại 3 người tại Đồng Nai vì "nhiệm vụ trong game". Vụ án nghiêm trọng với động cơ khó hiểu từ thế giới ảo.

    #TinNóng #ThờiSự #TộiPhạm #ĐồngNai
    #HotNews #CrimeNews #VietnamNews #GamingAddiction

    vietnamnet.vn/loi-khai-ban-dau

  8. 🎮 Gaming Addiction vs Passion – Are You Still in Control?

    There’s a fine line between loving games and losing yourself in them. Dr. Chetan Dhongade’s latest blog breaks down the 5 warning signs of gaming addiction, how it differs from healthy passion, and Ayurvedic tips to bring back balance—without quitting your favorite hobby.

    👉 Read here: drchetandhongade.com/blogs/gam

    #Gaming #GamerLife #HealthyGaming #GamingAddiction #SelfCare #MentalHealth #Ayurveda #MindfulGaming #WellnessTips #BalanceInLife

  9. Locked Up Living Catherine Knibbs (Video) Behind the Screen: The Hidden Risks of Online Engagement for Young Minds: Cath is an author, clinician with children and adults, supervisor, researcher, educator, speaker and mum with a background in the Armed Forces Engineering and Optronics, IT, Gaming and Psychology alongside Functional Health and her other passion of Neuroscience.… lockedupliving.podbean.com/e/c @lockedupliving #MentalHealth #OnlineEngagement #CyberTrauma #ChildPsychology #GamingAddiction

  10. Clinical #GamingAddiction is much more than playing Elden Ring for hours on end. But when does a hobby become a problem, and what can you do about it?

    twincitiesgeek.com/2024/10/loo

  11. 15-Year-Old Pune Boy Allegedly Influenced by 'Blue Whale' Game Dies from Jumping 14th Floor, He Left the Note That Said "Log Out"

    Full Story: gamingfoodle.tech/pune-boy-blu

    #bluewhale #gamingaddiction #saferinternetday

  12. Got completely absorbed in playing Cities: Skylines 2 yesterday and stayed up way too late tinkering with my miniature metropolis. #gamingaddiction #citybuilding

  13. Are #autistic young people more vulnerable to #GamingAddiction? learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/ by Dr Frank Paulus,vulnerable subpopulation for gaming disorder%E2%80%9D.&text=Paulus' 2019 study found that,time talking to other gamers.
    #autism #ADHD #disability #neurodiversity

  14. Are #autistic young people more vulnerable to #GamingAddiction? learningdisabilitytoday.co.uk/ by Dr Frank Paulus,vulnerable subpopulation for gaming disorder%E2%80%9D.&text=Paulus' 2019 study found that,time talking to other gamers.
    #autism #ADHD #disability #neurodiversity

  15. I do have for now a gaming fatigue over Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage and I'm trying to fight with Genshin Impact addiction during study... For now there's no time for gaming... :psyduck: #HatsuneMiku #ProjectSekai #gaming #mobilegaming #gamingaddiction #student #GenshinImpact #games #mobilegames

  16. lateboomersden.blog/2023/05/12
    It still amazes me that gaming is a legitimate way people make money now. Not knocking it, but that can't be me. I'm totally out of the loop on a lot of conversations because of it, but I know my limits.
    #Technology, #addiction, #duolingo, #gaming, #GamingAddiction, #SuperMario, #TenaciousD, #WorldOfWarcraft

  17. Thank you, Marc Nielsen, for quoting me in Deseret News (UT) re: #gaming #GamingAddiction

    “Nintendonitis: America’s digital addiction -
    Why gamer culture is still exploding, and what it means for the future”

    deseret.com/2023/1/10/23542755

  18. “Solving” #gamingaddiction sounds as easy as easy as “solving” #alcoholism, but #China’s state-affiliated body overseeing #videogames seems about ready to call recent efforts at curbing #gaming use among children a “success.” chinatechnews.com/2022/11/23/8 #gamingnews

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