Sure, video games want to get you hooked on spending. But there's no evidence they can manipulate you
- Written by Ben Egliston, Postdoctoral research fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
YouTube/ScreenshotThe ABC’s latest Four Corners report is an investigation into how videogames are “deliberately designed to get people hooked”.
It describes the use of gambling-like “loot boxes” in games, the hotly debated notion of videogame addiction and, to a lesser extent, the “predatory techniques” of...





