A list of the shows, interviews, and posts about video game addiction from our series.

We continue our interviews of various video game personalities with Phil Frazier, senior producer of the Madden Football franchise from EA Sports. Madden Football every year outsells not only the competition of other football games but virtually all video games. We discuss with Phil what goes into making a game that gets large groups of people to plunk down money each year for a new edition and we get his thoughts on video game addiction.

We follow up with Neils Clark, co-author of Gaming Addiction: The Experience and The Effects.

In our continuing series on video game addiction, we talk to renowned video game designer Bill Roper. Currently, Roper is an executive at Cryptic Studios where he oversees MMORPG's like Champions Online and Star Trek Online. We get an insider's perspective on what goes into creating a successful game, including game mechanics, demographic considerations, and more. We specifically ask him his thoughts on video game addiction as well.

Coming up soon on Flipswitch, we'll be interviewing a couple of major designers in the video game industry as we take a look at the issue of video game addiction. At times, it may come across like we're wagging our fingers at them for making games that get so many people for such long stretches of time; however, that's not exactly right. The reality is the fact these things are so fun to play for so many people that it makes them want to play forever means in their particular field of video game making, they're extremely good at their jobs. That is precisely what they're supposed to do. So, we're definitely not trying to sound conspiratorial or that they're somehow "to blame" for the phenomenon of average folks playing video games for WAY too long.

Continuing our dissection of the issue of video game addiction, we talk to someone that has dealt with it firsthand. Ryan Van Cleave explores some of the issues he faced as a video game addict. He is the author of the new book, Unplugged: My Journey Into the Dark World of Video Game Addiction.