We definitely don't have all the information here. Game addiction is real, true; but the there have to be other factors. The parents had to have been parenting this kid wrong in some ways, like the fact they let him play for a day straight. Second, there could be abuse in this child's life, which would lead him to play so much. I've heard of people doing a lot of things to hide from abuse, from drugs and alcohol to just running the f*ck away, and video games could definitely provide a safe zone for this kid. Not that I think that this kid isn't to blame either, it's just that kids don't kill their parents when pure recreation is taken away from him. Gaming was clearly more to him than that, and his parents shouldn't have let that happen.