Societies may tremble when a hot new video game is released, but the hours spent playing popular video games do not appear to be damaging players’ mental health, according to the largest-ever survey of nearly 40,000 gamers and their gaming habits, which was conducted over six weeks by a team from Oxford’s Internet Institute. That does not mean, however, that the research did not throw up some concerns—and, the team argues, much more information is needed before tech regulators can really rest easy.
Gaming does not appear harmful to mental health, unless the gamer can't stop
