On August 10, 2005, BBC News reported that a South Korean man died after playing almost nonstop for fifty hours, collapsing of exhaustion in an Internet café. On May 27, 2010, the Daily Telegraph reported that a fanatic French video-gamer hunted down and stabbed a rival who had killed his war-game avatar. The attack occurred not in the confines of the virtual game but on the victim’s physical doorstep. The Frenchman knocked on his rival’s door and stabbed him. On October 13, 2009, PC News reported that, in a fit of frustration, a Swedish teenage boy allegedly stabbed a girl after an Internet
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