When A GIRL died after a marathon session playing her favourite computer game, fellow devotees paid her the ultimate tribute.
Hundreds went online and staged a virtual funeral for her.
They directed their characters to a cathedral in the World Of Warcraft fantasy game and spoke in memory of her. The digital characters could be seen kneeling in rows, heads bowed.
The player, known only as Snowly, died last month after playing the game for three days with barely a break during a week-long national holiday in China. She must have had no sleep at all for over a week her online friends said she had one of the highest attendance rates in the online game.
But days before she died, Snowly complained of feeling exhausted as she prepared for a particularly difficult stage of the challenge.
Weeks later, a second gamer, who nicknamed himself Thereafter, died in similar circumstances.
The deaths are the latest in a growing number of tragedies related to excessive games-playing in Asia.

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