This is one intervention you wouldn't want staged on you. You know how there are now rehab centers for gaming addicts? Well, China's got those too, and you'd be terrified to land in there if you were the patient. As it turns out, a certain clinic in Linyi, Shandong province administers electro shock therapy for Internet addicts. Don't worry, though, the Ministry of Health has already ordered a halt to it.

The Leipzig Games Convention organizers have decided, and they find Sony's Resistance: Retribution for the PSP as the best presented game in this year's event. Who else took bacons home? Check out the list after the jump.

We've all heard that news about the South Korean dude dying in his seat after playing StarCraft for 50 hours straight. While it's a tragedy that he died doing something he obviously liked, it's an all-too-real fact that anything, if consumed in excess, can and will kill you.

Now it seems that the Internet has made it into that list of things you should probably avoid in taking in too much, as a 30-year-old man in China recently died after being on the interwebs for three days straight.

This little bit of news comes from a local broadsheet, the Beijing News. Apparently, the web-user, having already clocked a staggering 72 hours on the internet straight in a cybercafe, suddenly collapsed in front of his computer terminal. Emergency personnel were quickly summoned but were unable to revive the user.

One of the medics that reported to the scene was quoted in saying that the amount of time the user had spent online might have triggered heart problems. Unfortunately, the broadsheet did not specify just what kind of online activity the user was engaged in before his death.

Of course, one doesn't really need to pin down just what activity it is, if you consider the absurd amount of time spent online. 72 straight of any activity, be it something as sedentary as videogaming or online surfing can and will take a toll on your body. Your body needs sleep, and any considerable deprivation of it can be quite devastating, if not downright fatal.

So remember, while being focused on a certain hobby or pastime is nice, it's always important to take a break.

In a past article, we made mention of the Chinese government's effort to stop teenagers from playing too much video games by requiring MMORPG makers to demand player's IDs and real names. This time, Reuters from Beijing, China reported of a patriotic Internet game called "Chinese Heroes" being developed today as a response to the Chinese government's action.

Although still not ready for release a year after development begun, the game's details are already spilled out. In Chinese Heroes, players click on statues to learn about the represented person's experiences and get them to carry out tasks like moving bricks and stuffs.

Kou Xiaowei, an official with China's General Administration of Press and Publication that is organising the game's development, said that the game's goal is to teach players about Chinese ethics. It also hopes to teach them China's history and significant Chinese persons as well. As of now, five heroes have been developed, including Lei Feng, a Mao Zedong-era model soldier, and Zheng Chenggong, a pirate also known as Koxinga who seized Taiwan from Dutch colonial rule in 1661.

We wonder how this game will perform upon its release in a world where everybody seems to be so hooked up on games filled with adventure, slaying and domination? Well, we'll see. Say tuned for updates!