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01 Sep 2005
A Scottish judge has sentenced a couple to a 3-month jail term because they neglected their four children to satisfy their gaming addiction.
Neighbours had warned authorities after some of the children were seen naked on a window ledge. Social workers found one child in a rather dirty diaper and two of the children needed emergency dental care.
Although this is an extreme case, you can never again say that there is nothing wrong with playing computer games all the time.
Just ask members of the mailing list EverQuest Widows.
Gamer "Lauke" at work last year at the World Cyber Games in San Francisco, where the Dutchman won the Unreal Tournament competition and $25,000 in price money.
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