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
The 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...