Starcraft: Deadly if you play it too much!

Was this Darwin in action or Starcraft is unhealthy?




Man Dies After 49 Hours of Computer Games



Wednesday, 10 August 2005, 09:00 CDT


SEOUL, South Korea - A 28-year-old South Korean man died of exhaustion in an Internet cafe after playing computer games non-stop for 49 hours, South Korean police said Wednesday.

Lee, a resident in the southern city of Taegu who was identified only by his last name, collapsed Friday after having eaten minimally and not sleeping, refusing to leave his keyboard while he played the battle simulation game Starcraft.

Lee was quickly moved to a hospital but died after a few hours, due to what doctors are presuming was a heart attack, police said.

Lee had been fired from his job last month because he kept missing work to play computer games, police said.

Computer games are enormously popular in South Korea, home to professional gamers who earn big money through sponsorships and television stations devoted to broadcasting matches.








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Video Games and Diversity

We have an adequate number of studies that indicate video games do influence behavior, as does music and peer pressure. How then to assist needy students in understanding the emotions and feelings of others - well, they came up with an answer ... ICED!

A "new video game that invites players to step into the shoes of foreigners who run afoul of the US immigration system."

"... so you can experience what they are going through."

A professor of political science from the University of California, Irvine suggested that the game was "very important, especially for younger people, to understand the diversity of American society. It's easy to assume that everyone is like you."


AP August 2, 2007, Gamers play illegal immigrants in new title