Here's another shocking tale of internet gaming addiction to kick off your working week. As usual it's from the Far East - according to the Shanghai Daily, Xiao Yu a young war game addict, suffered a detachted retina and subsequent blindness due to 'obsessive Internet playing'. "The sudden loss of his vision ended his computer gaming on the Internet," adds the reporter incontestably.
The article then makes the sort of leap in logic that even the most conservative western commentators usually draw short of:
"Those juniors "hooked" on the virtual world, especially violent games, tend to live according to the rules of the games. They fight to defeat other players in order to strengthen their own gaming position. They see the loss of lives as common as they gain new lives of their own when they kill each other."
There follows a catalogue of gruesome game-related suicides and murders from around China. A Channel Five documentary is surely already in production...
