The Sun (shock horror) is today reporting the death of a 20 year old student who died due to deep vein thrombosis. The headline is simply ‘Death by Xbox’’ and is clearly a negative (yet highly misinformed) look on video games. This story is the second negative article to be published by The Sun which paints video games in a bad light.
The student (named Chris Staniforth) played his Xbox for stints of 12 hours a day on games such as Halo. The father of Chris Staniforth had the following to say on the death of his son:
He didnt die due to xbox. He died because he didnt exercise and ate sh*tty food
The SUN need to go to HeLL!
People need to eat properly and get exercise, whether or not they play Video Games for long periods. It is important for gamers to remember to remember that these rule apply to them even more, if they find themselves always sitting and eating junk like Sodas and burgers.
Please take care of yourselves so we can have fun for many more years.
I do some very long gaming sessions. Yesterday I got my plat in Demon's Souls and it too 8 hours of the day. But I always go to the Gym.
Just because you play games does not mean you have to let your body go to waste. Keep it in check so you can play more games later down the road!
can they please close down the sun like they did news of the world :)