Hmmm...no comment.

Hurrah ... ?

Too bad AC6 is kinda boring.

On a more serious note: it's just like being frozen through time and when you wake up, everything has changed a la Futurama.

I would have given him an NES and told him he needs to work his way up to a 360.

Oh yeah, and this guy can go to hell.

I'd hate for it to explode in his face.

Just hate it.

"Games: Popular with (falsely accused) toddler killers."
Eh, could be worse.

Critical missing bit of information: his conviction was overturned and he probably didn't do it.

[www.guardian.co.uk],,2230506,00.html

Um... yeah, it's video game related, but you guys know you don't have to post EVERYTHING that mentions a system or title, right?

@Erwin211: I should read my posts. I sound like I'm supporting him.
Crap.

@MeanMF: Try again. Your commas broke the URL-detection mechanism.

@MeanMF: Nevermind? I'll just shut up now.

"Oh, so they make games in 3D now!"

Ok, this guy paid his dept to society. Lay off him. Too bad the court of public opinion has no concept of Double Jeopardy.

He should have to retrieve the 360 from a giant incinerator like in the movie Saw 2.

What a touching story.

Man possibly burns down house, pleads guilty to manslaughter, get s a free 360.

Think about the publicity!

@Edge of Blade: We all know what double jeopardy is. I bid $500. If I'm right, I get $1000, if I'm wrong, I lose it all.

It's pretty simple.

WOW - 21 yrs dude.....hard core. Knowing his luck the 360 would probably ROD in 2 days. He would probably kill himself after that.

Meh, who the F puts commas in URLs... Google it :p

When game bloggers start thinking toddler killers have enough in common with gamers to the point of feeling that killers can speak to the "gamer" through a personal experience, a little part of me dies, another little part thinks that Jack Thompson was right, and finally, a little part thinks it's ef'ing awesome to see how many people this will twist into a frenzy.

@Mark:
*shakes head in condemnation* For shame Wilson, this is a missed opportunity. I would have spiced it up to pull out more venom.

He learned how to kill through the Atari...Think of the horrors he will cast upon society with AC6! :O

Wait a second. Someone explain. He was sentenced to death but was kept in prison for 21 years until now? How does this work in the US of A again?

Also, the only reason he didn't want to die was a videogame? Is that the point? Not trying to bash the point that it's posted here but I just don't get it. Stupid Eurasian here.

@Edge of Blade: Thank you.

Seriously, people, the man did the time for his alleged crime. For those of you who still want him to suffer, stop being touch an internet tough guy and please try to place yourself in the situation.

"Wow, now that's an Xbox 360 commercial if I've ever heard one."

Unless it is for "Assasin's Creed", I doubt it would work. After all, the guy did kill a 2-year old, ya' know???

El Cernex

Well considering his trial was a joke, the evidence was messed up and he probably didn't do it compounded with the fact he's already been in there 21 years. Cut the guy a little slack.

touch = such. Whoops. That reads a little differently than I had planned.

@Achaemenid:
Okay, I guess this does need backstory.

Here in the US, even when sentenced to death, it's rare for somebody to get the penalty immediately. A ton of them die in prison before they ever actually get the chair. They hire lawyers and go through all sorts of appeal processes, and essentially delay the date repeatedly. 21 years is pretty common. Tookie Williams, the founder of the Crips, one of the bloodiest gangs in LA, spent over 20 years in jail(and wrote children's books), before he actually got lethal injection.

The reason he didn't want to die is because he enjoyed living. It seems kind of odd that they got him for murder, which is also probably why he was able to extend it so long.

The point of the article is that right when he got released, he got a free Xbox 360.

Gotta love my wonderful state of Ohio keeping the man in jail for 21 years for an accident. I bet the jury was full of Ohio State grads.

I like how they describe him as a "retro gamer."
Is everyone who has been in the clink since the 80s a retro gamer?

@Achaemenid: The American legal system is a mess. With all the appeals and paperwork that go into an actual execution, most states (read: EVERYONE BUT TEXAS) rarely actually put anyone to death. Can take years (obviously) and according to a study I once read its cheaper to just put them in prison for the rest of their lives instead of wasting all the legal money trying to kill them.

@KaneTaker: Let me footnote that by saying THANK GOD this guy was not put to death now that its coming out that he did NOT do it. Poor bastard.

haha..i hope the 360 RRODs right when he turns it on...that bastard....

For what it's worth:

[en.wikipedia.org]

Not taking sides one way or the other, but it's not exactly quite so cut and dry. Obviously he was convicted... though it seems somewhat debated that he was ever truly "proven" guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
 
Seems like something of a clusterfuck of a legal case either way.
 
I'd probably not publicize it though. I guess it's nice that someone in his family bought him a 360, just as anyone buying anyone a 360 would be nice... but yeah... go away quietly. :/

Also it's a little mean that most commenters are automatically declaring him guilty, if you go look up a few things about the incident then you can see the majority of it is based on flimsy testimonies and circumstansial evidence.

I mean it's not like some cases where the muderer is just sitting there telling them he didn't do it while his hands are covered in blood. There's a ton of serious doubt about his case and most people think it's a sham.

@Roflcopter_Down:You are the first one that ive seen that uses the expresion "a la" correctly, everybody writes "ala"...

Who nows maybe he will get and endeless "RRoD curse" on avery 360 he gets, or maybe he just skiped death penalty to die of a long agonizing and painful disease...

@Kirbytheslayer: Just Kirbytheslayer: Ah. Cheers.

@KaneTaker: Thanks to you as well. If anything I learned where not to commit crimes. Texas.

Confirmed: playing the Atari video game drives people to burn 2 year old babies alive. I can't wait until Jack Thompson uses this to justify his idiotic point of view.

I'll be sure to hit him up on Live. So hey buddy, how's your pilots license comin' eh?

baby burners get 360's and AC6? ok...?

@Achaemenid: Texas is, I believe, also the only state that will execute the mentally retarded. That and the fact that I can think of 3 executed prisoners who were proven guilty after execution makes Texas SCARY.

@KurtSubvert: Yes.

Mr Wilson, Mr Wilson... As I look through all of your postings, I see alot of PS3 favorable posts, and then I see this post here, in which your underlying point was some negativity towards the xbox, of all the negatives you could come up with, you choose to associate it with a murder story... Where's your imagination?

ha...
don't count on him saving any lives in games

21 years. I'm willing to bet that most of the ignorant posts here are by people who haven't yet reached that many years of life. 21 years is an insanely long time to pay for a crime that you apparently didn't commit. That's probably half (or more) of his life gone because the world needed a patsy at the time of his trial. I wouldn't be surprised if the idea of soaring around in jets is representative of freedom this guy had long given up on having.

Even if he did it, unless he's clinically insane, I'd say the man's done his time. Let him fly.

while i dont know the whole story behind his killing a 2 year old i do think instead of a commercial the story needs to be a LIFETIME movie. however that would require the guy to become girl and to have been beaten by her husband.

Some of you are being too harsh on this guy, assuming he was guilty. Lest we forget the fact that there's plenty of evidence supporting his INNOCENCE and that his trial was a sham.

The only reason he filed "no contest" to the charge of manslaughter (he didn't plead not guilty, it's just interpreted as that by the courts) is because the state of Ohio won't admit there was a miscarrige of justice when there obviously was, and his only alternative to the no contest was the death penalty. If you were innocent, don't you think you'd take any hope of survival out there?

Cut the guy some slack, he was jailed for 21 years over a crime he probably didn't commit.

@Edge of Blade:

I doubt you'd say that if you were the girl's father.

I hope his system red rings on him 1 minute into his first play.

@maximus9: I'm very glad that you've carefully assessed the situation from both sides.

@Krytha: You know you don't have to read and comment on EVERY kotaku post, right? Right?

@MeanMF: that is a main point lol

Knowing that a convicted murderer has an Xbox 360 really has made my Christmas.

@Odin: Well, he WAS found guilty despite what people might say about the trial process, so we might as well treat him as such. Besides which, it's hypocritical to put that guy's life above that of the infant that died...

So...if poor sick children get Wiis and convicted killers get 360s, then who gets PS3s? Mad scientists?

@Forelli_Boy: apparently no one does, they just get phone books instead.

OK, so he's moving from 1 button and 1 digital stick to 11 buttons, two analog sticks and a d-pad?

Bet you anything this guy ends up with a Wii.

@Witzbold: so why comment?

@Kirbytheslayer: Just Kirbytheslayer:

It's simple, but that's not it. What you described is "Double-or-Nothing", and has nothing to do with Double Jeopardy. At all. Not even slightly.

Wow, considering the knee-jerk reactions on this article, thank goodness it was not Manhunt 2 he wanted.