SPOnG has just seen the most bizarre and alarming news video, which WGN TV news broadcast in the US earlier this week. The station reports that videogames are apparently the new drugs destroying a whole generation of kid’s minds and social skills.

Videogames, a teaser segment for the news piece claimed, are the new crack cocaine. The news piece itself is, how can we describe it, sensationalist to an extreme degree. Set to footage of blank-eyed teenagers staring entranced at flickering screens, their entire zombie-a-like beings focused only upon the game which they are clearly hopelessly addicted to and powerless to resist.

Oh my, here we go again.

To try to describe it any further at this point in time is fairly hard for us, as we are all currently still laughing and/or crying so hard to think of the best way to respond to the news.

So instead, we urge you to go check out the full, sensationalist shockfest news video from WGN right here.

Watched it? Okay, now wait five minutes to calm down a bit, after which you might want to write your comments and thoughts on the piece to WGN directly – which you can do so right here.

The really sad aspect of the story is that, once you get past the sensationalist games-as-new-drugs claptrap, the piece really does have some straightforward and common sense advice to convey to viewers. However, most gamers and right-thinking people would be doubled up in tears of laughter or anger at this point, and most likely miss the fairly serious point that the piece is trying, yet spectacularly failing to make.

“Kids need to learn to play games in moderation. Just like they need to learn to eat sweets in moderation and do lots of other things which they enjoy in moderation,” said father of four and avid gamer Stuart, SPOnG’s fountain of GamerDad knowledge.

Stuart added: “Watching that news piece just made me angry and sad, as I play games with my kids all the time, and its something we get a lot of pleasure from, and it's also a very precious time when we all get to play together. Which in my opinion is something to be treasured, not mocked and misunderstood like it clearly is by this news channel!”