In Real Life

Police Say Christmas Gaming Drove Woman To Attack Children With Butcher Knife

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.


December 28, 2011
In Real Life

The Gaming Gifts I Gave This Holiday Season

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?


December 25, 2011
PC

Yule Love These Holiday Fireplace Apps For Gaming Consoles And Mobile Devices

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.


December 14, 2011
PC

In DC Universe Online, Christmas Belongs To Larfleeze

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.


September 30, 2011
News

Does The Most Wanted Game Of Holiday 2011 Surprise You?

Nielsen, the market research people, has a list of the top 20 games that are the most anticipated titles of 2011′s holiday season.


December 26, 2010
In Real Life

A Video Gamers Christmas

It was the winter of 1980. My brother and I, wrapped in blue robes, ran down the stairs to be greeted by a brand new Atari 2600 and bevy of games under the tree.


December 25, 2010
In Real Life

Prima Says Happy Holidays With Two Decade’s Worth Of Guides

Always ahead of the game, literally, Prima Games sent us a card to wish us not a happy holiday, but a happy New Year.


December 24, 2010
In Real Life

Deus Xmas

The video game Deus Ex is wishing us a happy holiday. Though I believe it’s more of a Merry Christmas message here. It’s the hat that gives it away.


December 21, 2010
News

Let The Steam Holiday Sale Commence

Steam is ringing in the season with ridiculous savings on some of the best games available for the PC and Mac, with weekly and daily specials from now through January 2. Now how much would you pay?


November 25, 2010
In Real Life

Here’s What The Hell The Canadian Military Wanted With $25K In Video Games

Previously on Weird News from Canada: A garrison outside of Montreal opened a requisition for $US25,000 worth of video games, an order a headquarters spokeswoman called “strange.” Turns out they’re gifts for soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. Whoops.