BEIJING, China (AP) -- A man in southern China appears to have died of exhaustion after a three-day Internet gaming binge, state media said Monday.

The 30-year-old man fainted at a cyber cafe in the city of Guangzhou Saturday afternoon after he had been playing games online for three days, the Beijing News reported.

Paramedics tried to revive him but failed and he was declared dead at the cafe, it said. The paper said that he may have died from exhaustion brought on by too many hours on the Internet.

The report did not say what the man, whose name was not given, was playing.

The report said that about 100 other Web surfers "left the cafe in fear after witnessing the man's death."

China has 140 million Internet users, second only to the U.S.. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for hours in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.

Several cities have clinics to treat what psychiatrists have dubbed "Internet addiction" in users, many of them children and teenagers, who play online games or surf the Web for days at a time.

I was going to edit this saying something like - after playing Eve online and stealering XP from }BoS[Whispers one source says. But I didn't and just copied the whole article.

Wow that's sad. Not becuase he died, but because he really had no self control or apparently nothing better to do. Unbelievable.

I know people who have lost thier jobs because they could'nt stop playin WoW

ROFL.....I havent really talked to 2 of em in a loooooooooong time
I have been playin City Of Heroes,Its addictive yes,BUT SO IS MAKIN MONEY!