A boy has collapsed in a fit of convulsions after a 24-hour session on the computer game World of Warcraft.

The 15-year-old boy was playing the game with six of his friends at a house in western Sweden when he collapsed in front of the computer.

The apparent epileptic fit was blamed on a combination of factors — little sleep, lack of food and a prolonged period of intense concentration while playing on his computer, the Times of London reports.

The boy's father was quoted as saying he would now limit the amount of time his son spent on computer games.

The boy and his friends gathered at his house on Saturday to play a new version of the Warcraft series, titled 'Wrath of the Lich King'. The boy collapsed around 2pm the following day.

"They played all day and all night," the father said. "Maybe they got a few hours of sleep."

"They ate a little food and breakfast at their computers."

The release of the new version of Warcraft, a multi-player fantasy role-playing game, has prompted warnings from some psychologists about the dangers of addiction to online games.

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Dear parents,

Letting your kids do any one thing for 24 hours straight is a bad idea.

Love,
CAPTAIN f***ING OBVIOUS

Parents were probably utilising the time to make love.

last edited by mission at 14:57:34 19/Nov/08

As a punishment, we should force the parents to play until their deaths.

That'll teach em not to let their kids play anything ever again.

People organise LANs to play WoW together?

Pfft, I bet it was some kind of drug fueled soggy sao circle jerk fest.

So do you have to run an actual marathon in WoW now?

What a stupid f***ing game.

24hrs?

That's weak! Clearly the kid's never been to a QGL before.



Headline should read: "s***ty parents raise s***ty kid"

Well they did say 'kid' so no, I doubt he's been to a QGL.

Kids that used to go to QGL LANS are now old men.

Stinky, cranky old men that talk about shoes, suits and tampons.

last edited by mission at 15:03:39 19/Nov/08

I remember when I used to lan ... we used to play for longer, much longer. And usually only on a few different maps in quake.

Computers and tv's: the new babysitters

yer obes, fkn whipperscnappers these days... no staying power ;D

Definately soft! I bet the server first 80s wouldn't have had a fit!

hopefully the proposed internet filter can monitor wow use and limit access when you use it too much as defined by Conroy so parents can opt out of that aspect of parenting too.

daddy issues much?

Now to add insult to injury, ban his account.

I remember finishing QGL LANs with a bad headache and sore eyes. And a whole load of viruses from using that "D something something" leeching program.

Sounds like someone needs to L2MANUP

200 cc's of Jolt Cola...stat!

]Superboss[ death threa..

oh wait

I bet dehydration had something to do with it.

Natural selection at work. I don't see the problem here?

EDIT: Crap I thought he died :( Well he'll be cleansed from the gene pool eventually through lack of offspring due to no sex with women.

last edited by parabol at 20:20:36 19/Nov/08

^ or inundated with his genes after he has 24 hours of continual sex with lots of wow sluts to increase himself to level playaaaaaaaaaa

I could play games for 24 hours without passing out but there's no way I could run for that long! Running must be worse for you! Ban running!

Maybe it was the sweet sweet southern that kept us alive ?

If memory serves, the alcohol *and* the copious amounts of (nutritious) pizza and chips prevented any risk of collapse.

wonder what loot he dropped