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A school has issued a warning to parents urging them not to allow their children to use a ‘suicide’ dating game as it has deemed it too dangerous. The Doki Doki Literature Club app has been allegedly linked to the deaths of two teenagers, due to its themes of self-harm and suicide.
The app is advertised as a school dating game which begins with users playing a school pupil who wants to write poetry to impress girls. While the first part of the game features no hints of violence, it quickly descends into a psychological horror, with users allowed to select various endings to the game.


https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/read-this/school-dating-game-warning/

Substantial description here of how it works:
https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/22/16512204/doki-doki-literature-club-pc-explained
 
It's no surprise that kids get extremely excited when gaming, so it's no surprise excitement can trigger heart rhythm malfunctions in gamers who are predisposed to such problems.
Gaming May Trigger Heart Rhythm Problems in Susceptible Kids, Report Says

Doctors have long known that playing high-intensity sports can trigger serious heart rhythm problems in people with certain underlying heart conditions. Now, a new report suggests that playing electronic games — particularly war games — may be a trigger as well.

The report, from researchers in Australia, describes three unrelated cases of children who fainted while playing electronic war games. All of these children had underlying conditions that affect the heart's electrical system and can be life-threatening. But in two of the cases, the child's heart problem wasn't discovered until after they fainted while gaming.

The intense, emotionally-involved play of the games may result in the release of stress hormones that could be a trigger for heart rhythm problems in susceptible people, experts said. ...

In the first case, a 10-year-old boy suddenly lost consciousness at home after winning the war game he was playing, according to the report, published Sept. 19 in the New England Journal of Medicine. He soon regained consciousness and seemed alright. But later, the boy experienced a cardiac arrest at school due to a life-threatening condition known as ventricular fibrillation ...

The second case involved a 15-year-old boy who had previously undergone heart surgery to repair a hole in his heart that he was born with. The boy started to faint right as he was about to win the war game he was playing. ...

.... About two months later, the boy experienced another episode of ventricular tachycardia, again while he was about to win his game.

In the third case, an 11-year-old boy collapsed after having heart palpitations while "animatedly playing an electronic war game with a friend," the report said. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.livescience.com/electronic-gaming-heart-rhythm-problems.html
 
A gamer was found dead after spending the night gaming. When he was found he was still clutching his XBox controller.
Gamer, 43, found dead clutching Xbox controller after all-night session

A GAMER was found dead still clutching his Xbox controller after an all-night session, an inquest heard.

Simon Shanks, 43, was discovered slumped on his sofa in front of his screen with the gaming controller in his hand. ...

An inquest heard the night he died Simon and a friend stayed up until around midnight to play on an Xbox.

But his friend went upstairs to bed - and came down 11 hours later to find Simon.

The inquest heard he found Simon "still on the sofa, in a sitting position, still clutching the Xbox controller".

Paramedics and police were called to the property but he was pronounced dead at 12.15pm at his home in Loughor, Swansea. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/7046608/gamer-found-dead-clutching-xbox-controller/
 
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