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Science Says Don’t Play Super Mario Galaxy Before Trying To Shoot Someone In The Face

The zombie is five steps away, you’re cornered, and you’ve got one last bullet in the chamber. If you were just playing Super Mario Galaxy you might as well turn the gun on yourself. A recent highly scientific study found that when it comes to putting a bullet in a humanoid target’s brain, Super Mario Galaxy doesn’t help.


November 10, 2011
News

Man Threatens To Blow-Up Store That Ran Out Of Modern Warfare 3

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years as a video game consumer, it’s that terrorists threats don’t speed up restock. It’s a lesson Colorado’s Loromin Sar missed, allegedly threatening to bomb a Best Buy and shoot its employees for not having his copy of Modern Warfare 3 in stock.


July 24, 2011
News

Guildmates Of Oslo Shooting Suspect Find Solace In World Of Warcraft Forums

The 32-year-old man suspected of detonating a bomb in Norway’s capital and going on a shooting spree in police garb, killing at least 87, was many things: He was a self-identified conservative Christian, farmer, body builder, hunter, freemason and gamer.


May 12, 2011
News

Man With Laser-Sighted Sniper Rifle Hunting Rats In Moscow

Look, everyone needs a hobby. I like to read, and stare solemnly out my window. It’s good to stay active! But this Russian fellow has a particularly engaging pastime: hunting down Moscow’s rat population and blowing them to rodent hell.


April 7, 2011
News

Man Pleads Guilty To Killing Over Scarface: The World Is Yours

22-year-old Alejandro Garcia of Corpus Christi, Texas, will spend the next 15 to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to the 2007 shooting death of his younger cousin over whose turn it was to play Scarface: The World is Yours.


March 1, 2011
News

Suspect Compares British Shooting Spree To Grand Theft Auto

Qhuram Awan was either an unwilling hostage or a willing accomplice during Raoul Moat’s 2010 crime spree that left one dead and two seriously wounded. Speaking to Newcastle Crown Court, Awan recalls the event was “like a video game”.


March 9, 2010
News

Three-Year-Old Kills Herself With Game Controller-Shaped Gun

A three-year-old in Wilson County, Tennessee died Sunday evening after accidentally shooting herself in the abdomen with a weapon she may have mistaken for a plastic Wii facsimile.


April 11, 2009
In Real Life

Sailor Shot Dead During Video Game

A gaming session ended in death on Wednesday, as Clinton Echols allegedly pointed a gun at his fellow sailor and fired it while playing an unspecified military video game.


April 28, 2008
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50 Cent II Impressions

Wow, I’m not sure where to begin with this one. I’m not often overly critical of games, especially ones that haven’t released yet, but I have to say here and now that I was very disappointed in the Fifty Cent game. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn’t what I was presented with.