I thought it was interesting how right off the bat Clark says that the book was written from a neutral standpoint, which I think is very important. From listening to all of these podcasts, which are all related to video gaming and addiction, I've been hearing mostly from the producers' points of view (with the exception of Clark's partner Shavaun Scott).

Clark says that the gamers need to "develop the technology of balancing the media worlds they go into and the [real world]." It's difficult for these people to separate their game lives at home to real world outside of the house due to the cross-platforming, where the gamers can use different media to access their games, i.e. Facebook and the iPhone.

In Clark's research, he found that these games are created as "amusement parks that you're expected to be at every evening; they are designed to be rewarding." But especially in kids and young adults, whose brains are "still developing in crucial ways," parents use gaming as a "surrogate babysitter," and the parents are preventing them with a game, which is designed to be rewarding, which is going to be a more compelling alternate to their everyday, real world stressors. They will want to escape by going back to their consoles.

A disussion of the real world and games: the addictiveness,complexities, and consumption of time which is out of control.
The question is, who's responsibility is it....the patients.the doctors?