Xbox

Second Time’s The Charm In Xbox Live SWAT Griefing

Instead of bogus pizza deliveries, sending a SWAT team to your door appears to be the hip new griefing trend in online gaming. Earlier this month we told you about a gamer in Eugene, Ore. who answered the doorbell to a police raid, thanks to some douchebag he met in FortressCraft. Now it’s happened to someone in Florida.


June 3, 2011
In Real Life

Cops Tase Man With PS2 Tucked In His Pants

Cops trying to get a man to stop walking in traffic had a tougher time convincing him when they found out the dude was strapped—with a PS2.


March 10, 2011
News

Pokémon Suspect, Cops Arrest You!

Japanese cyber cops are cracking down big time on individuals who are breaking copyright law. And if you break he law, you just might end up on prime time news.


January 29, 2011
In Real Life

This Guy Wants His Video Game Back

But first he has to put on some makeup. With a Sharpie. And then find his sword.


October 14, 2010
News

Drug Dealer Gets Three Years In Wii Bowling Case

A Florida man whose home was notoriously raided by undercover detectives who stopped to play Wii bowling has agreed to a plea bargain that will send him to prison for three years.


September 12, 2010
News

Stolen Console Leads Cops To Meth Surprise

A Florida woman swiped and pawned her roommate’s console, and when the cops came over to ask questions, they noticed a “large white chemical cloud” wafting out of the house. Better living through chemistry!


August 4, 2010
In Real Life

Kid Bribed With Video Games To Steal Drugs, Say Cops

Kids, if someone promises you a video game! if you let them borrow a bottle of mum’s pills without telling mum, that’s bigtime STRANGER DANGER and you need to tell McGruff the Crime Dog.


January 9, 2010
News

Stolen Video Games Help Catch A Predator

A Delaware man is looking at some time in the slammer for failing to register himself as a sex offender, and he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling video games.


December 25, 2009
In Real Life

Stolen 360 Helps Cops Bag Prolific Bronx Burglar

Jeremiah Gilliam’s streak of 200-plus larcenies and burglaries came to an end when the criminal mastermind plugged in a jacked Xbox Live, leading the cops directly to his door.


December 22, 2009
In Real Life

Mum Calls 911 When Kid Won’t Stop Playing Console

In Chicago last month, a kid called 911 when the ‘rents took away his Xbox 360. Saturday in a Boston suburb a mum dialled the law when her son wouldn’t stop playing. Oh yeah, Grand Theft Auto’s involved here, too.