We’ve all read about the guy Who played StarCraft almost continuously for 50 hours. He went into cardiac arrest and died at a local hospital.
In a different case a Korean man stabbed his mother to death because she nagged him about playing too much on the internet. He then went to an internet cafe to continue his game.
Now we have a Korean couple who starved their three month old daughter to death while they raised a virtual child online.
Guardian.uk –South Korean police have arrested a couple for starving their three-month-old daughter to death while they devoted hours to playing a computer game that involved raising a virtual character of a young girl.The 41-year-old man and 25-year-old woman, who met through a chat website, reportedly left their infant unattended while they went to internet cafes. They only occasionally dropped by to feed her powdered milk.
The police seem to think that the virtual world allowed them to escape their real life problems, including their daughter.
