She says: "Obesity, social exclusion, loneliness, physical fitness, sedentary solitary lives - these are all descriptions of children who are already hooked to games".
Today, kids as young as three are hooked into games.
Her patients are often those with more obvious problems -- people who are so hooked on games like "League of Legends" that they won't take bathroom breaks, for example -- but she had thoughts on the Apple Watch.
DIY Gamer Kit: from £35, techwillsave.com Assemble your own portable games console and get hooked on classic games such as Snakes and Breakout – or even programme your own (£65 for add-on Arduino board, for programming).
The cast of Downton Abbey admitted they became hooked on the game during breaks on set.
Like many who have become hooked on the game, Falafel found the omnipresent possibility of winning seductive.
Watching the match reminds me of what has changed since I first became hooked on the game but also of what has endured for a couple of hundred years and more.
Thousands of youngsters on each side of the Atlantic were hooked as the game was stripped of the stultifying and pernicious grip of the men in the stained nylon blazers.
Ideally, Arduboy could be a sort of gateway into a wider world of programming: Get hooked making a game and you might create the next breakthrough app.
I thought people who claimed to be hooked on electronic games were either very weak-willed, or were making excuses so they didn't have to do dull stuff instead.
