Teenager dies after playing Diablo III for 40 hours without food

Interesting, I'm old enough to remember the Person dies in X country after playing Y game for Z hours. http://games.slashdot.org/story/07/09/17/1653218/another-man... http://games.slashdot.org/story/05/08/09/1628216/man-dies-af... Are any of these even true?

Sitting still for 40 hours, then dying after being roused and walking - sounds like he may have had a pulmonary embolism from a blood clot in his legs. Though, this is less common in asians and apparently this happened in Taiwan, so who knows. But that would be my first guess.

http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1911303-overview#a0156

The title is leading. It's Not the game, and not entirely the marathon that caused this. The article it short on information and long on speculation.

I guess no one told him about the Steam Summer Sale

People don't die after only 2 days without food. The title is misleading and the article is full of speculation.