Activision Blizzard Inc., Epic Games Inc., Roblox Corp. and around a dozen other video game developers were hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit alleging a 9-year-old became addicted to the companies’ games such as Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Grand Theft Auto.
Cold Take did a deep dive on this lawsuit too. He’s quite a lib, but presents a lot of data:
They hire literal teams of psychologists to make the games as addicting as possible.