Man Die After Playing Game For Three Straight Days

A 32-year-old man died after a three-
day internet gaming binge, the second
time an online gamer died in Taiwan
this year. Fellow café members failed to
notice the man had died, and he is
thought to have lain dead for several
hours as gamers continued to play.
The man was found in an internet café
on January 8, motionless and sprawled
on a table, and was rushed to hospital
where he was
pronounced dead from
cardiac failure, a police spokesperson
told CNN. The man’s surname was
Hsieh and he had been playing games
in the café in Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s
second biggest city, since January 6.
The man had been unemployed for
some time and frequented internet
cafés, police said. He would often
disappear for two or three days at a
time.
Police told CNN that gamers in the café
continued as if nothing happened, even
when police and paramedics arrived to
check in on the man. It is thought he
had been dead for several hours before
they arrived, as his body had stiffened.
The man was a regular customer to the
café who would regularly play for a
number of days, according to local news
reports.
"When tired, he would sleep face down
on the table or doze off slumped in his
chair," a staff member told the Taipei
Times. "That is why we were not aware
of his condition in the beginning.”
Another man died in Taipei on New
Year’s Day after playing video games
for five days straight.