Allegedly enraged over her five-year-old son’s playing of a video game he received as a Christmas gift, Jutrina Tillman of Phoenix, Arizona, dragged the young boy into his bedroom and began to strangle him before threatening to kill him and his 13-year-old sister with a butcher knife.
As a gamer that regularly reviews big titles and otherwise has the means to procure his own video game entertainment, it isn’t often I get to experience the joy of a thoughtful video game related gift. Instead, I give things to my family and live vicariously through them. What did they get this year?
In 1966, TV station WPIX filmed a a fireplace at New York’s Gracie Mansion, cancelled $US4,000 worth of advertising and broadcast it for two hours on Christmas Day as a gift to viewers who had no fireplaces in their apartments. Its spirit lives on screens large and small to this day.
First DC Universe Online introduced the Green, Yellow, and Red Lanterns. Now, just in time for Christmas, they’re getting all greedy. The one and only Orange Lantern Larfleeze has appeared in game update seven, spreading Season’s Greedings to Gotham and Metropolis.