World Health Organisation officially recognises “Gaming Disorder” as illness

Motion was passed even with opposition from industry bodies and academics

• Health
• World Health Organisation
• Addiction

World Health Organisation set to judge whether "gaming disorder" will become a recognised illness this week

The ESA continues to push back on the perceived risk of listing obsessive gaming as a disorder

• Health
• World Health Organisation
• Addiction

PUBG Mobile adds new gameplay management tool to help promote “healthy gaming”

Aimed at young users under the age of 18

• Asia
• Updates
• Health
• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

Sea Hero Quest is a mobile VR game that can identify a player’s risk of Alzheimer’s

Glitchers' game uses spatial navigation challenges to detect early warning signs of the disease

• Research
• Health

Former Atari COO Todd Shallbetter goes medical with Level Ex

Shallbetter will help the surgical training company's drive into VR and AR technologies

• Jobs
• Education
• Health

OliveX raises $1 million to turn getting fit into a game

Funding comes from the likes of Alabaster and Antanas Guoga

• Investment
• Funding
• Fitness
• Health

"No consistent evidence” that screen time is harmful to children

But that doesn't mean parents should be giving kids free rein over phone time

• Kids
• Britain
• Health

Small mobile games start up and healthcare company join forces to raise vaccine awareness

• Health

Animoca Brands nabs investment to create AI-based exercise app

Animoca Brands’ subsidiary OliveX to lead the development

• Investment
• Health
• Artificial Intelligence

"The fitness ecosystem offers new, unique ways to monetise": Inside the Fitness Village

A Finnish gym has released its own mobile game which is part fitness tracker, part patented customer reward scheme, part location-based explore-'em-up

• Location-based
• Fitness
• Health
• Pokémon Go

Therapeutic mobile game developer Tilak Healthcare raises $2.7 million

French digital healthcare startup get big investment

• Startup
• Funding
• Paris
• Health

Pokemon GO players walk more than non-players but only for the first six weeks after downloading it

Says a study from the British Medical Journal

• Health
• Pokémon Go

Zombies, Run! dev treating future of wearable gaming with a healthy dose of skepticism

Adrian Hon is not convinced

• Google Glass
• Wearables
• London
• PG Connects
• Android Wear
• Health

Why OEMs, game devs and health companies should combine to make wearables a success

Businesses might need to pay for our wearables if they want to make money from them

• Wearables
• Health

Samsung announces Gear S and Simband at SDC 2014

Two new wearables for developers to get their hands on

• Wearables
• Samsung Gear
• Smartwatch
• Health