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Terrible 19 Year-Old Threatens Suicide To Get Money For In-Game Equipment
Previously we’ve translated a report about a young woman in China threatening suicide after receiving a fake iPhone — well now, there’s a young Chinese man in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, threatening to commit suicide over video game equipment.
The Japanese PS2′s Last Game Gets A Release Date
A couple of months ago, I wrote about how the Japanese PlayStation 2 has one unreleased game left. For the longest time, this title, Final Fantasy XI: Seekers of Adoulin, had been simply labelled as “Release date: 2013.” Now, at last, it has an official release date.
This Desktop Design For Gaming Addicts Would ‘Ruin’ Humanity
Sometimes you settle in for some PC gaming or web surfing. And you just don’t get up. You can feel your bum go numb and the chair meld into your skin. Surely, you know the feeling. If so, maybe the above internet-produced desktop design would appeal to you. And if it appealed to enough people, it would probably end the world as we know it. Meh, who needs that anyway? We’ve got computers!
Why Yes, Atlus, I’d Love Another Online-Enabled 3DS Action RPG
We’ve not written much about Atlus’ Code of Princess, and that’s partly my fault. I saw the online-enabled co-op and competitive action role-playing game at E3 earlier this year, and forgot. I know, let’s blame Persona!
Hacker? Cracker? Who Cares, She’s Only 11!
A sixth-grader from Osaka, Japan, is in protective juvenile custody after accessing an online game site with somebody else’s password. The 11-year-old girl is accused of violating Japan’s unauthorised Computer Access Law after figuring out the name, birthday and password of a 12-year-old school girl in Yamanashi Prefecture.
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.
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