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I don't allow my son to play computer games during the weekdays. He's allowed to play it 30 minutes on Saturdays and Sundays but he rarely plays since we are mostly busy with activities.
He seems to enclined to play it more whenever he has a play date with other boys at their houses and mainly spends time playing the computer games. So I pretty much stopped play dates with those kids at their houses. He does have play dates at a park instead.

I heard some stories about severe game addictions from my Korean relatives. My cousin even sent her son to a summer camp in Britain just to make her son get away from the computer. Their advice is to limit the time in front of the computer and help them to enjoy other things in life. I know it's easier said than done.