A South Korean man has died after playing Starcraft, an online battle simulation game, for almost 50 hours straight. Local newspapers—referring to the man only by his last name, Lee—reported that he had recently been fired from his job for spending too much time playing computer games.

That's when Lee sat down at a local Internet café in the southern city of Taegu. He logged in on Wednesday, August 3, and spent the next three days playing the game, stopping only for trips to the bathroom and quick naps on a makeshift cot.

When Lee's mother had not heard from him by Friday, she asked some of his friends to find him and bring him home. After reaching the café, they confronted Lee, who told them that he would leave as soon as his game was finished. A few minutes later he collapsed and was taken to the hospital. He died shortly after arriving.

A Taegu provincial official told reporters, "We presume the cause of death was heart failure stemming from exhaustion."