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Dad’s Tribute: Call Of Duty On Soldier Son’s Grave
10:00AM Owen Good | Touching? Whether a man and his son enjoy kicking a football or playing a video game together, who’s to judge. But there is a helpless irony in seeing Call of Duty left on the grave of a fallen soldier. More »
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EGM Writer Passes Away
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Andrew Baran, former writer at Electronic Gaming Monthly and EGM2/Expert Gamer, passed away on July 26 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. More »
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College Freshman Gets Life In Console-Dispute Tragedy
9:00AM Owen Good | A Fresno man was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for shooting a 19-year-old to death in a dispute over a PlayStation 2, bringing to a close a tragedy first reported on two years ago. More »
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Video Game Obsession Cited In Halo Shooter’s Lenient Sentencing
1:40AM Mike Fahey | An Ohio judge has granted Daniel Petric a lenient sentence today, citing the teen’s video game addiction to Halo 3 as a potential contributing factor in the 2007 shooting that left his mother dead. More »
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Deceased Wrestler Loved Great Video Games
2:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Earlier this week, tragedy struck when Japanese pro wrestler Mitsuharu Misawa was killed in a freak ring accident — suffering lethal spinal damage from a suplex. More »
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Video Game Argument Ends In Accidental Death
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | A brother argument over video games has ended in death when an 11-year-old Mississippi boy accidentally shot his 9-year-old brother in the chest with a shotgun. More »
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Grade School Suicide Leads To Mass Game Website Closings
12:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Thai courts have order the closure of online gaming and gambling websites after a 12-year-old boy jumped to his death from a sixth-floor balcony after being banned from gaming by his father. More »
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Wrestling Video Game Blamed For Child’s Parachuting Death
11:40PM Mike Fahey | Friends of 9-year-old Damori Miles of Brooklyn, New York, claim the boy was imitating moves from WWE SmackDown vs Raw when he jumped off of his apartment rooftop to his death wearing a makeshift parachute. More »
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Man Dies While Playing Wii Fit
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Tim Eves, 25, died on March 4 in front of his girlfriend while playing Wii Fit reports UK newspaper Telegraph. More »
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