In a lovely bit of contradictory news, The Escapist reports that a university professor in China has accused online gaming of destroying lives and lowering IQs:

Tao Hongkai, a professor at Huazhong Normal University, claims that studies in over 100 Chinese cities have shown that 70 percent of juvenile delinquent behavior can be blamed on internet addiction. In an article in the English-language Shanghai Daily, he said that number was "easy to understand, given that 80 percent of online videogames have violent, pornographic or fraudulent elements." College students are hit especially hard, according to his numbers; a survey of 13 colleges found that 90 percent of flunk-outs are the result of internet addiction.