Force Quit Didn't Work

I just recently got a brand new Macbook Pro with retina display in January. I was playing games online when suddenly the game froze. I tried moving the cursor but the cursor was no where to be found.The sounds to the game still worked perfectly and the ads on the website still functioned normally. I then tried the force quit commands without any luck.. so i just closed my computer..when i opened it back up the cursor was visible again but still would not move..after trying the force quit commands again without luck i resulted to pressing the power button for 3 seconds which then gave me the option to restart sleep cancel or shut down..but nothing on my keyboard worked and neither did my cursor.. it sucked.. so i held it down again for about 5 seconds which then shut my entire computer down.. when it turned back on everything went back to normal.. i'm just curious if anyone has had a similar occurrence with their macbook or if someone may have an answer as to why this happen. Thank you

The computer simply froze and locked up. You haven't provided any information that would suggest why other than playing games online.

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Then, I restarted from my internal drive.
I had this problem in April (I took notes) and Apple replaced my hard drive.
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