Our work on Game Transfer Phenomena and gaming disorder at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2023 Congress (RANZCP) in Perth, Australia, was featured in news.com.au, “Gaming disorder: Gamers may be seeing things that aren’t there” My colleagues Huu Kim Le, Wai Chen, Antony Callan, Daniela Poynton […]
Game Transfer Phenomena was covered in the Red Bulletin magazine regarding the Tetris film on Apple TV+. Read the article on page 80.
“I played for five minutes, I still see falling blocks in my dreams” The above is a line from the trailer for the “Tetris” movie. Jeffrey Goldsmith, described the Tetris Effect in Wired 1994: The Tetris effect is a biochemical, reductionistic metaphor, if you will, for curiosity, invention, the creative […]
Jamie Madigan, who has dedicated over a decade to understand the psychology of video games, invited me to his program to discuss Game Transfer Phenomena! Listen to our conversation on the Psychology of Video Games Podcast website or choose your favourite player below: iTunes Spotify Stitcher
BBC Bitesize interviewed me for an article on Game Transfer Phenomena. I was particularly thrilled because Bitesize is a site for young people, the ones who may be more likely to interpret GTP as something wrong. Follow this link to read the article. According to our studies, younger players (15-22 […]
My interview on Game Transfer Phenomena in the Curiosity daily podcast with the enthusiastic Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer! They make a great team. Follow this link to participate in our ongoing study mentioned in the program.
Do you want to share you Game Tranfer Phenomena experience in a podcast? A recognised American podcast wants to hear your voice! If you would like to share, please contact me.
To my surprise, my survey made it to the front page of the Swedish gaming site FZ.se. Thank you for embracing science! Happy to see that the recruiting part of the inevitable process of research is valued! I felt a little melancholy since my research on Game Transfer Phenomena started […]
Washington Post is running a series of stories on growing up in “The screen age”. In the most recent story “The next level” they go into the case of “Byrne”, his struggles with gaming addition and the impact on his family. Byrne has also experienced Game Transfer Phenomena (GTP). “After […]
Is technology haunting us? Or we are haunting it? Aleks Krotoski wonders. Traditional definitions of what is alive seem limited! Toys dance, cry, smile; advanced technologies are “smart”, and trick us making us feel they are present and even alive. Traces from virtual immersion appear and people see and hear […]