Why do Videogames Claim Lives?
So this isn’t exactly our question of the week, but it’s a good question to post to all of you over the weekend anyway. Why DO videogames claim lives? This doesn’t happen much here in the USA but overseas it’s a rare, but true, phenomenon. Want to read more about this? Check out this article from a Korean newspaper.
“People who haven’t slept for a long time usually don’t realize how exhausted or stressed they are,” says Dr. Song Hyeong-gon of Samsung Seoul Hospital’s Emergency Department. “Because they are stressed by the obsession with winning the game, they consume a considerable amount of energy. In such a physically exhausted condition, exposure to bright colors or stimulating images on the screen is likely to irritate the cerebral cortex and can cause sudden death.”
Creepy….put down that Nintendogs right now and step outside…
Tags: portable gaming:Addiction:Video Games
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“Claim lives?” Sounds quite a powerful statement.
I always thought there was something in the human head which gets him to do decisions…