Dead gamer unnoticed in web cafe for hours

A Taiwanese man died while playing video games for 23 straight hours at an Internet cafe, as dozens of other patrons carried on for hours afterwards apparently unaware that they were sitting near a corpse.

Chen Jung-yu, 23, checked in at the cafe in New Taipei city on Tuesday night and was found dead but still sitting rigidly on a chair with his hands stretched out the following night by a waitress, police said.

According to reports, Chen had been playing "League of Legends," a 3D online multi-player video game.

The waitress last saw Chen talking on the phone around noon on Wednesday and his body had apparently been sitting there for up to nine hours without any of the 30 other people in the cafe noticing.

An initial police investigation found he might have died of a cardiac arrest triggered by low temperatures.