Highway to Hell… France Warns of Gambling Risks in Video Games
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A study warns against the effects on teenagers of hybrid games, prognostic games and video games that incorporate casino mechanics, such as GTA. These games would have a gateway effect
Highway to Hell… France warns of gambling risks in video games
With 39% of respondents having played hybrid video/gaming products, ANJ, France’s gambling authority points to new research, raising the alarm at how games like Grand Theft Auto (GTA) act as a “gateway to real money gambling” Video games are increasingly creating behaviours that mirror excessive and problem gambling patterns among French adolescents as gamification mechanics […]
Four out of ten French teenagers, between 15 and 17 years of age, used digital games incorporating typical gambling mechanisms. 39% of the young people interviewed said that they had participated in at least one of these activities in the three months preceding the survey, while 15.6% made purchases using real money. Among [...]
The convergence between gambling and video games fosters the risk behaviour of minors according to a study by the Association for Research and Prevention on excess games (Arpej) published in...
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