so what game was he playing that was good enough to keep him hooked for 7 days? -i've been looking for something to play lately.. details please.

I heard he was playing the evolution based game, Spore. Apparently he lost, but did take with him a consolation prize of a Darwin Award.

Did he drop any loot?

"A Chinese man who spent "almost all" of the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday glued to a computer game finally dropped dead at the end of the marathon session..."

I kind of figured he hadn't dropped dead at the *beginning* of his marathon gaming session...

How about take a walk in the local park and shift some of that bulk - bit late now mind...

This is roughly the 30th news article I've seen on someone dieing in an internet cafe in *insert random asian country here*.

Do these stories just come from some gullible person on the newswire, or is some research actually done to validify the accuracy of the story?