GAME ON: A boy plays a first-person shooter game on a mobile gadget —Photo by Grig C. Montegrande | INQUIRER
MANILA, Philippines — Cris, a 38-year-old insurance company employee, has been losing sleep of late over the online activities of his son Richard, 13.
His worries grew following the June 22 shooting incident at a Tacloban City high school, which authorities partly blamed on one of the two underage suspects being hooked on violent video games.
“As soon as he comes home from school, he would start playing, and it would go on until the wee hours. He would only stop just to eat, and sleep only after some scolding,” Cris said of his boy, a Grade 8 student in a Mandaluyong City school.
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