9 - Plastic Corrupts

Here's another unfortunate case of tech journalists not doing the research. I could say a number of things about the entire article, but that would be talking about politics and I don't like talking about politics. What drew my attention was this:

"I personally believe these are addictive games, because you have kids playing them for many, many hours a day, and putting their lives on hold basically to play some of these, like World of Warcraft and Warhammer," said Black.

Warhammer is a strategy game played on a tabletop. Players meticulously build and paint entire armies of little model soldiers. They set these up and play battle scenarios against each other based on elaborate rules and dice rolls. I've never played it or had any friends who did; this is just something I knew. And it's not even my job to know it, either.

After finding this, I did a little checking and found out that there was indeed a MMORPG made based on Warhammer. It was released a year after this article, so the possibility remains that the author instead believed that kids were hooked on a game that didn't exist yet.