crime

Police Blotter: His Face Fought The Law And The Law Won

Crime is a constant feature of video games writing. Somewhere, someone is doing something illicit with them — sometimes comically stupid but potentially tragic. Games and consoles are currency, objects of dispute, sometimes even weapons themselves. Kotaku‘s Police Blotter is here to round up the latest in games crime.


LulzSec Members Behind Sony, Nintendo Hacks Of 2011 Sentenced

Four members of LulzSec, the group behind 2011′s hacker attacks against Sony and Nintendo, were sentenced at a London court yesterday.



Mass Murderer Denied PlayStation In Prison, Takes Legal Action

In 1987, Julian Knight shot and killed seven people in Clifton Hill, Melbourne. A further 22 were wounded. He’s currently serving seven life sentences.


Crimefighting Babysitter Foils PS3 Robbery By Telling Suspect’s Mum

Oklahoma’s most idiotic robbery (this week) ended in the arrest of two teenagers who brandished a firearm at a babysitter and two children and stole a PlayStation 3 from their home. However, one of the suspects forgot to tuck in his bandanna properly, helping Nancy Drew crack the case before the commercial break.


She-Hulk Wanted In The UK For Violent Assault

British police in York, England are on the lookout for a suspect that they believe is a white woman. Or a green woman. Or a white woman in green paint. Whatever.


Call Of Duty Blamed As Boy Admits Killing Mum With Birthday-Gift Rifle

It’s been a cheerful few days for video game crime news, hasn’t it? First was the teenage father who sawed a former friend’s neck down to the trachea over some Xbox Live name-calling. Now an Iowa boy says he killed and attempted to rape his mother after she took away Call of Duty.


Throat-Slashing Blamed On A Gears Of War Relationship Gone Bad

A 14-year-old admitted to slashing a 13-year-old’s throat in an assault Scottish authorities blamed on a soured online friendship developed over Gears of War. Of course the game itself is blamed but when the 14-year-old already is a father, you’re not talking about someone with good decision-making and impulse control.


Schoolgirls Blame Their Vandalism Rampage On A Comic Book

All the chairs and desks were over turned. On the chalk board, the kanji character “shi” or “death” was scrawled. But that wasn’t all.


Man Busted With Pot-Stuffed Pac-Man Machine

Luis Tyler, a small businessman from Orangeburg, South Carolina, needed a creative shipping solution for acquiring 25kg of a common agricultural product. So he asked that his vendor stuff it inside a Pac-Man arcade cabinet, which the cops knew all about, of course.


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