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Norway Mass Killer May Be Declared Insane
Confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was legally insane when he killed nearly 80 people, many children, during a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway in July, according to a psychiatric evaluation ordered by the court, the Associated Press reports.
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A Closer Look At Breivik’s Manifesto
Yesterday we wrote our own rebuttal to the knee jerk media reaction to news that Anders Behring Breivik played video games as a ‘training simulation’. Now Nick Ross over at the ABC has taken the time to go through Breivik’s manifesto, and makes some interesting points about his motivation, and his relationship to video games.
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Oslo, R18+ And Default Media Finger Pointing
About three years ago I interviewed a group of soldiers deployed in Afghanistan about gaming on the battlefield. Here were three men, fully trained soldiers, trained in combat, who spent most of their spare time LANing Modern Warfare on their laptops. “Why do you guys spend so much of your time,” I began, tactfully, “playing…