Protip: aluminium foil is only useful for protecting you from the mind-controlling radio signals sent out by the CIA. If you’re using it to shoplift games, all it does is attract the attention of the store manager. More »
There are 64 volumes of popular Japanese manga One Piece. Each copy is about half an inch thick and weighs 5.30 ounces. All 64 volumes stacked are over three feet high and weigh nearly 22 pounds. You’d be insane to try to steal all 64 volumes at once. More »
The defence attorney for a 19-year-old New Jersey man under arrest for the firebombing of several synagogues is blaming video games for his behaviour. According to lawyer Robert Kalisch, Anthony Graziano’s unstable mental health was undermined by violent video games played on his Xbox: More »
Anonymous continues to lash out following the seizure of Megaupload and the jailing of its founder, having momentarily deleted both CBS.com and UniversalMusic.com. Xbox Live has been threatened, but is that credible? More »
There are things you shouldn’t do when you’re the police chief. Stealing the Xboxes that the FBI planted in a car because they thought you were dirty is on that list. More »
The police in Lake Oswego, Oregon, a Portland suburb, pride themselves on the motto “no call is too small”. And they took one, yesterday, that comes straight from the Sheriff Andy Taylor manual of community policing. More »
On March 2, 2011, 21-year-old Arid Uka walked up to one US soldier outside the airport in Frankfurt Germany and shot him in the head. Witnesses said he boarded a US military bus, shot a second soldier to death and injured two more. More »
Japan’s Mainichi Daily News lists Hiroyuki Miura (not pictured) as “unemployed”. That’s exactly fair. He’s apparently self-employed, with police believing that Miura has been breaking into arcades across Japan. More »
Did you know that in the US, police can use Xbox 360 consoles – and Xbox Live – to trace and catch criminals? And that there are often law enforcement officers posing on the service undercover in an effort to catch child porn offenders? More »
