"Although experts are still debating whether excessive game playing counts as an addiction, Mr Bakker has no doubt that the symptoms are the same. 'If we see a car burning outside, we don't sit around wondering what to call it,' he said. 'It is not a chemical dependency, but it's got everything of an obsessive-compulsive disorder and all of the other stuff that comes with chemical dependency.' Tim, a 21-year-old from Utrecht, said he had hardly left his bedroom for five years because he was so obsessed by his computer games. "
Ole C Brudvik on 03 Dec 11A newspaper in Australia refering to a Dutch gaming addiction comment on that game addiction is definitely psychological disorder. But other argue that it could also be an addiction defined as other addiction as for example drug or gambling addiction and therefore have a checmical dependency?