Man Dies From Gaming?

September 18, 2007 | by Christopher Nickson

A Chinese man has died after what has been described as a three-day gaming binge.

The Beijing News has reported that an unnamed man has dropped dead after a three-day Internet gaming session.
 
It happened on Saturday in the city of Guangzhou, in the south of China. The man, said to be around 30 years old, collapsed in an Internet café and was rushed to hospital. According to the newspaper, exhaustion was deemed the likely cause and "police have ruled out the possibility of suicide.”
 
There’s no mention of what game had obsessed him for 72 hours.The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."
 
Internet addiction has become a major problem in China, which, with 140 million Internet users, is second only to the US. Several cities have clinics to treat the disease, and the government has banned the opening on new Internet cafes and issued orders limiting the time Internet users can spend gaming online.

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Eddi on Sep 28th, 2007 at 10:32 AM:

Of course he was addicted, it may be the only freedom he really had all his life. But unless it happens more often I see more of a person with other real mental problems which took him over the edge.

Online games are not addictive what is addictive is that people tend to feel like they have more of a real life in some of these games than their hard working going nowhere poor existence of a life.

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