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Things you should know about the dangerous mild-altering, life-destroying game that is World of Warcraft.

The parents of a 13-year-old Chinese boy who they say jumped to his death from a tall building after playing one of the popular "Warcraft" online games for 36 hours straight are suing its Chinese distributor, a news report said Friday. Full story...

A couple in Incheon, South Korea, were arrested last week when their 4-month-old daughter died after being left alone by the couple for hours. The mother and father reportedly had gone to a nearby Internet cafe, lost themselves in playing Blizzard's massively multiplayer online PC game World of Warcraft, and returned to their home only to find the infant dead from suffocation. Full story...

The government in Beijing is reported to be introducing the controls to deter people from playing for longer than three consecutive hours...The phenomenal popularity of online games has fuelled concerns that some people may be losing themselves in the virtual worlds of massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG).Full story.

"If other countries have drug and alcohol problems, we have online gaming addiction," said Kim Hyun Soo, a psychiatrist in Seoul whose clinic receives one new serious gaming addict a day. Experts say the problem in South Korea may provide an early warning of things to come for other countries...girls who resorted to prostitution for game-playing money. Full story.

A Shanghai online game player has stabbed to death a competitor who sold his cyber sword for real money. Full story.

Expert: 40 Percent of World of Warcraft Players Addicted. If you're suffering from dry eyes, headaches...He had become immersed in World of Warcraft and had trouble removing himself from that virtual world....This 18-year-old individual was miserable. Full story.