Fat gamer keels over after marathon session

A ROTUND CHINESE GAMER has died after a marathon gaming session over the Chinese New Year holidays, according to Reuters.

The hefty bloke from Jinzhou in Liaoning province weighed in at a whopping 330lb and suddenly collapsed on the very last day of the holiday, having spent pretty much all of the seven-day holiday playing online games, says the China Daily.

Local teacher Xu Yan wasn't too surprised at the bloke's obsessive gaming patterns, telling China Daily that there are literally only two options during the "dull" holiday period: "TV or computer."

"What else can I do in the holiday as all markets, KTV and cafeterias are shut down?" he continued. It is no surprise, then, that 2.6 million of China's youth are classed as official interweb addicts.

This isn't the first MMORPG-marathon related death. Maybe Jack Thompson was right after all. µ