Man dies in Taiwan after 3-day online gaming binge

The man, surnamed Hsieh, entered the cafe in Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s second largest city, on January 6, a police spokesman in the Kaohsiung district of Hunei told CNN.

An employee found him motionless at 10 a.m. on January 8 and he was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead from cardiac failure.

Hsieh’s death came after 38-year-old man was found dead at an Internet cafe in Taipei on January 1 after playing video games for five days straight.

And in 2012, the corpse of man who died playing online games went unnoticed for 10 hours by other gamers and staff.

CNN