News

Call Of Duty "Hacker" Jailed For Spreading Virus, Stealing Credit Card Numbers, Being A Thug

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.


In Real Life

Teens Arrested For Stealing $400 Worth Of Pokemons

On May 11 at a Walmart in Massachusetts, staff apparently saw three men shoplift packs of Pokémon cards and exit the store.


May 17, 2012
In Real Life

Hey You Jerks! Leave This Anime Character Alone.

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.


May 11, 2012
In Real Life

Thieves Try To Steal Xbox From House Full Of Poison

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.


May 10, 2012
News

Leaked FBI Report Details How Best To Get Away With Bitcoin Crime

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.


May 8, 2012
In Real Life

Idiot Calls In Bomb Threat To Imitate Video Game

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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.


May 7, 2012
In Real Life

Drug Smuggler Hides Cocaine In Xbox 360, Fails

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.


News

Sex Offender Who Inspired New York’s ‘Operation Game Over’ Sentenced

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.


May 4, 2012
In Real Life

"Acclaimed Artist" Actually Just Stole Video Game Images, Printed Them Off

So an “artist” by the name of Iani Papadopol recently held an exhibition in Romania called “UpDate 3D Loading”. It was a local hit because the “paintings” he showed off were, for a guy nobody had ever heard of, amazing.


May 2, 2012
In Real Life

GameStop Offering $5000 Reward For Capture Of Armed Bandit

As much as this sounds like a Red Dead Redemption marketing stunt, it’s a real thing.