[yahoo] S Korean dies after games session

[Greg Bernhardt]

A South Korean man dies after reportedly playing an online computer game for 50 hours with few breaks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/4137782.stm

[Hurkyl]

I didn't realize Starcraft is still popular! It is one of the games I've enjoyed the most.

I really dislike this article. It seems clear that the author was less interested in this event and more interested in pushing his agenda. He rants about MMORPGs, of which Starcraft is not: it's a Real Time Strategy game. Furthermore, an individual game of Starcraft DOES last 20 minutes, often less: this IS a game you can "play for 20 minutes and stop".


Incidentally, this has happened before, and the only occurences I remember were also involving Starcraft... I've not heard of anything similar happening with an MMORPG.