Are you addic-- hey! Pay attention and stop watching your Battleground.
Gamasutra has a new article on game addiction posted, with a number of people weighing in on the controversial topic.
Here we go again -- "the A-bomb". To just come out and say it, this article didn't go as planned. Originally, it was going to be a showcase of some different game developers speaking candidly about addiction -- most especially the subtleties that get missed by the popular press. Some devs bit, but not many.
Read it at Gamasutra.