Englishman Lewys Martin thought it would be a good idea to to offer people “hacks” for Call of Duty Games, which not only broke the rules of the game, but also included a virus.
Detective Conan (aka Case Closed) is one of Japan’s most popular manga and anime. In Tottori Prefecture, the hometown of Detective Conan‘s creator, Gosho Aoyama, is dotted with little bronze Conan statues for the locals to be proud of and for visitors to pose with.
Thieves tried to snatch an Xbox 360 on Wednesday from a home in Orlando covered in a fumigation tent, the Orlando Sentinel reports. They’ve got video of it.
This week, an internal FBI report was leaked, detailing the Bureau’s concern about the virtual currency Bitcoin and its potential to be exploited by criminals for money laundering and other scams.
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Bomb threats are never fun; they scare the living daylights out of people and create massive delays at airports. One Chinese gamer thought it would be fun to imitate the plot of a video game and decided to issue a false bomb threat against Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport.
Carlos Valenzuela was driving around Texas the other day, minding his own business, when he forgot to signal a turn at an intersection. For this oversight, he was pulled over, and probably would have got off with a warning/ticket if he hadn’t, you know, had three enormous bricks of cocaine inside his car. Two of them hidden inside an Xbox 360 console.
Richard Kretovic, whose sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy inspired New York State’s push to have all of its registered sex offenders permanently banned from Xbox Live and other major gaming services, was sentenced on Friday.
As much as this sounds like a Red Dead Redemption marketing stunt, it’s a real thing.