What makes a video game addicting? Good games draw us in because they are designed to satisfy the basic psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness with immediacy, consistency, and density. In real life, we want to feel challenged, connected, purposeful, powerful, successful, accomplished and important and we want it now. We’re able to achieve those feelings through video games. That doesn’t mean you should enter The Matrix. Before you know it, you haven’t showered or slept in 3 weeks. Check out our list of 5 signs you’re addicted to video games after the jump. No, not after you beat this level, NOW!

Video games can be, well, addicting. God knows how many late nights I spent trying get out of that one dungeon, or unlock that one sword, or kept saying to myself, “Just one more level…” Still, I draw my limits on things like World of Warcraft.
In case you aren’t up on the MMORPG (that’s Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game) front, World of… Click to read more