In an interview with [URL=http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2010-12-06-panoramas-emeke-onono-interview]GameIndustry.biz[/URL] Panorama producer and director Emeka Onono, explains why the BBC news program decided to tackle the subject of game addiction. While Onono claims that the program is not "anti-gaming," his comments to GI.biz do not sound game industry friendly.

"[I]What we've said is there's a potential for things in games to be addictive[/I]," he explains to GamesIndustry.biz. "[I]There is a potential there. And that's something that the industry's always doggedly denied. The fact is it's there and however small or large that possibility is it needs to be researched and acknowledged.[/I]"

Onono also accuses a segment of the games industry of being "very defensive" on the issue of addiction: [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/12/06/panorama-producer-defends-game-addiction-episode][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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