Battle Royale games continue to be incredibly popular\u2014the mode was confirmed to appear in the upcoming Battlefield V at EA\u2019s E3 conference yesterday. And while former king PUBG keeps losing players, Fortnite: Battle Royale is going from strength to strength,…<\/b>
\nBattle Royale games continue to be incredibly popular\u2014the mode was confirmed to appear in the upcoming Battlefield V at EA\u2019s E3 conference yesterday. And while former king PUBG keeps losing players, Fortnite: Battle Royale is going from strength to strength, no doubt helped by endorsements from celebrities and athletes who are fans of the game.
While Epic Games\u2019 free title is especially popular among younger players, it proved too addictive for one gamer, who decided to wet herself rather than walk away from the screen to use the bathroom.
The Mirror reports that the girl\u2019s parents bought her an Xbox One in January and she downloaded Fortnite. But by mid-March she was showing signs of addiction. \u00ab\u00a0We got called in by her head \u00adteacher asking if \u00adeverything was OK. She had fallen asleep twice in lessons and her grades were slipping,\u00a0\u00bb said mother Carol.
\u00ab\u00a0When we asked our daughter what the \u00adproblem was, she became unusually \u00adargumentative and aggressive, which we just put down to her hormones.\u00a0\u00bb
The family also started noticing regular payments of \u00a350 ($67) per month on their credit card, which the daughter said could be from some extras she\u2019d paid for on Fortnite. When they confiscated the console, the girl reportedly hit her father in the face.
The parents said they had limited their daughter\u2019s playtime on the Xbox to one hour during school nights and two hours on a weekend. But the seriousness of the situation was made apparent when her father found her sitting on a urine-soaked cushion while playing the game. \u201cI found her backside was red-raw. She was so hooked to the game she wouldn\u2019t even go to the toilet,\u201d said Carol.
That incident, and after admitting she was secretly playing the game throughout the night for up to 10 hours at a time, led to her parents seeking professional help for their daughter. She is now receiving psychotherapy to help break her Fornite addiction.
It seems that as video games become ever more mainstream, they\u2019re once again facing the same unfounded accusations that we saw decades ago. Recent school shootings saw \u2018violent\u2019 titles put under the spotlight, and the World Health Organization\u2019s decision to classify \u2018gaming disorder\u2019 as an official condition didn\u2019t help things. In the case of the nine-year-old who couldn’t stop playing Fortnite, which has a PEGI rating of 12, perhaps people should look more toward the parents instead of the game.<\/p>\n

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