<P> On February 19, 2017, Brian Vigneault died in Virginia Beach following a 24 hour video game marathon . </P> <P> A New Mexico woman named Rebecca Colleen Christie was convicted of second degree murder and child abandonment, and sentenced to 25 years in prison, for allowing her 3 and a half - year - old daughter to die of malnutrition and dehydration while occupied with chatting and playing World of Warcraft online . </P> <P> In March 2014, a 17 - year - old boy assaulted and killed his grandmother in Quezon City after she scolded him for playing Defense of the Ancients at a local Internet cafe . </P> <Ul> <Li> In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Game", William Riker brings a video game from the planet Risa . It stimulates specific parts of the brain, and almost all of the Enterprise crew become addicted to it . </Li> <Li> In the second segment of the 1983 American horror anthology film Nightmares, Emilio Estevez plays J.J. Cooney, a video game - addicted teenager who is consumed by a challenging arcade game named The Bishop of Battle . </Li> </Ul>

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