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When the S.W.A.T. arrived at a North Texas home in Lewisville, there were told a shooter was in the house. There was, but it wasn't the shooter the police expected. It was a kid playing Call of Duty: Black Ops. More »
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Attention parents of the world: GameStop is not a babysitting service. That fact was made abundantly clear to 21-year-old Kethia Dagrin-Francois of Florida when police arrested her for child neglect after her five-year-old son was found wandering the parking lot of Boyton Mall. More »
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Cops in a northeastern Pennsylvania community booked a man on attempted murder charges, saying he tried to strangle his wife with "a video game cord." Either he was playing with wired console controllers from a generation ago, or the guy went and grabbed the Xbox 360 brick to choke his spouse. More »
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When Sony was hacked in 2011, it was major news. People's personal information was put at risk. This latest PlayStation password story is not major news. It shouldn't even be on television. More »
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The 44-year-old mother of singer Minami Takahashi was arrested for obscene acts with a 15-year-old boy. More »
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Protip: Aluminum foil is only useful for protecting you from the mind-controlling radio signals sent out by the CIA. If you're using it to shoplift games, all it does is attract the attention of the store manager. More »
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It started out as any other fall afternoon. High school student "Joseph" was in his room playing video games when he got a call from Amanda Johnson, 17, to come over to her house. More »
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There are 64 volumes of popular Japanese manga One Piece. Each copy is about half an inch thick and weighs 5.30 ounces. All 64 volumes stacked are over three feet high and weigh nearly 22 pounds. You'd be insane to try to steal all 64 volumes at once. More »
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The defense attorney for a 19-year-old New Jersey man under arrest for the firebombing of several New Jersey synagogues is blaming video games for his behavior. According to lawyer Robert Kalisch, Anthony Graziano's unstable mental health was undermined by violent video games played on his Xbox: More »
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Anonymous continues to lash out following the seizure of Megaupload and the jailing of its founder, having momentarily deleted both CBS.com and UniversalMusic.com. Xbox Live has been threatened, but is that credible? More »
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Shoplifting is a crime. Just ask Winona Ryder. Yet, people still do it. They shouldn't, but they do. More »
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There are things you shouldn't do when you're the police chief. One of them is stealing the Xboxes that the FBI planted in a car because they thought you were dirty. More »
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The police in Lake Oswego, Ore., a Portland suburb, pride themselves on the motto "no call is too small." And they took one, yesterday, that comes straight from the Sheriff Andy Taylor manual of community policing. More »
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Republished from Kotaku Australia. More »
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On Jan. 12 in Osaka, a grade schooler and a friend were playing video games outside. It was 5:30 and getting dark when a middle-aged male approached. Man, he seemed pissed. More »
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On March 2, 2011, 21-year-old Arid Uka walked up to one U.S. airmen outside the airport in Frankfurt Germany and shot him in the head. Witnesses said he boarded a U.S. Air Force bus, shot a second airman to death and injured two more. More »
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Japan's Mainichi Daily News lists Hiroyuki Miura (not pictured) as "unemployed". That's not exactly fair. He's apparently self-employed, with police believing that Miura has been breaking into arcades across Japan. More »
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Did you know that in the US, police can use Xbox 360 consoles—and Xbox Live—to trace and catch criminals? And that there are often law enforcement officers posing on the service undercover in an effort to catch child porn offenders? More »
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I'm trying to see what the real news is here: On one hand, a Salvation Army bell-ringer stole a BB gun, two video games and a vibrator from a Kmart. On the other, Kmart sells vibrators? More »
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Allegedly enraged over her five-year-old son's playing of a video game he received as a Christmas gift, Jutrina Tillman of Phoenix, Arizona, dragged the young boy into his bedroom and began to strangle him before threatening to kill him and his 13-year-old sister with a butcher knife. More »
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Twenty-one year-old Christopher Moore swung by his local Game Stop in Norfolk, Virginia. He paid cash for an Xbox 360. The store manager, however, thought something was odd about the hundred dollar bills. They looked funny. More »
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The brutal murders of a 7-year-old girl and her uncle were apparently spurred by a tattoo-loving gunman and a plot to pay off his next bit of ink with game consoles, according to Indianapolis prosecutors. More »
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On December 13 a pair of shoplifters made off with a load of DVDs and video games from a Wisconsin Target store. Then they spent an hour boasting about how easy it was, making fun of other criminals for getting caught. I'm sure the 911 operator listening in on the conversation found it highly amusing. More »
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A man from Hillsboro, Oregon has been arrested and charged with assault after allegedly attacking customers at a Toys 'R Us store with...two plastic lightsabers. More »
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Bettysue Higgins, who until recently worked as an admin assistant for a law firm, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges after her fraudulent spending on casual video games was caught out. More »
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At 2 a.m. Tuesday morning, two criminals kicked in the door of an unidentified Pittsburgh man's home while he was playing an Xbox 360 game online. They then pistol-whipped the homeowner and threatened a woman who was also in the house at gunpoint. However, the victim was able to alert the person he was playing online with as to what was happening and the other gamer was able to call 911. Cops got to the house after the criminals fled with $100 and are investigating the case. Anyone with information is being encouraged to contact the police. More »
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Drugs, and drug culture, are common and prevalent in much of the West. Ditto for Japan, even if superficially the country seems immune to such devices. It's not. More »
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An overnight worker in Chicago came home to discover a 20-something year old burglar attempting to make off with his flat-screen TV and Xbox 360 in a suitcase. That's when all hell broke loose. More »
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Since October, we've heard anecdotal accounts of Xbox Live members finding suspicious purchases on their credit cards and learning their accounts had been recovered to another machine. Now it's happened to a games writer—just this past week. Dan Crawley of VentureBeat provides a detailed rundown of exactly what happened, and in the process asks some detailed questions of Microsoft. More »
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Nearly two weeks after the brutal murder of Oregon man David Grubbs (pictured), in which he was "nearly decapitated", local police have decided to start going through the victim's video games to see if there are any clues to help them catch his killer. More »
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Two Florida brothers were arrested earlier this week after getting into a drunken brawl over an arcade punch bag machine, the Delco Times reports. More »
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I've never been a fan of Black Friday, it's a celebration of everything terrible world: consumerism gone wild, so wild these days that it can lead to violence. More »
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In the latest mash-up of the Pepper Spray Cop image that came out of the Ocupy UC Davis protests, Lt. John Pike finds himself on Mars on the cover of id Software's classic first-person shooter DOOM. More »
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He sprayed Occupy movement protestors at the University of California, Davis with pepper spray last week. He seemed to do it nonchalantly. And now the country's most notorious campus cop has become an Internet meme (and his boss has been put on leave). More »
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As of mid-2009, the creators of World of Warcraft were retaining the IP histories of its users indefinitely and was drawing the lines about what information about its players that it would—or could—reveal to law enforcement personnel, according to a document released on Friday. More »
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Police on Tuesday arrested a Zynga temp who is accused of stealing $100,000 worth of merchandise and equipment from the company behind casual games FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia War, the San Francisco Examiner reports. More »
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Is it just me or are Call of Duty thefts starting to sound more and more like missions from the game? More »
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Stories involving video games and crime can sometimes be sad. Or shocking. Thankfully, this is neither. It's hilarious. More »
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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. More »
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A 27-year-old man fought off an armed teenager in a dark parking lot when the would-be robber demanded his copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 at gunpoint, Kansas City police say. More »
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