From Reuters, via Boston Globe (link):
The parents of a 13-year-old boy who killed himself after playing a computer game for 36 hours are suing the game’s licensed Chinese distributor for 100,000 yuan ($12,500), a Chinese newspaper reported on Thursday.
In 2004, Zhang Xiaoyi, from the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, jumped out of a window of his family’s 24th floor apartment after playing Warcraft at an internet cafe.
His parents said in a legal writ that China Cyber Port Co. Ltd.’s failure to clearly warn of the inherent “dangers” of Warcraft — a game produced by American company Blizzard Entertainment — was responsible for their son’s death, the Beijing Times reported.
