14 DAY TRIAL // A 23-year-old gamer from Taiwan named Chen Rong-yu, died in an Internet Café from New Taipei city, after a marathon session of online strategy game League of Legends.
Gamer deaths have been few and far in between, but each one managed to draw in unwanted attention from the mainstream media.
Now, a new online game, League of Legends, a massive online battle arena game in the vein of Dota, has claimed a victim in the form of Chen Rong-yu from New Taipei.
He went to a local Internet Café for a multi-hour session with the online game, according to Sky News, and died during this multiplayer marathon. Perhaps even more shocking is that his body was discovered after more than 9 hours since the actual time of death by one of the café’s staff, not by one of the 30 or so clients already present in the café.
Initial police reports believe that cardiac arrest was the cause of death, seeing as how the young man was operated on for a heart condition last September. His state was only made worse by blood clots that were caused by the low temperatures, exhaustion and the lack of movement.