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Stolen 360 Helps Cops Bag Prolific Bronx Burglar
Jeremiah Gilliam's streak of 200-plus larcenies and burglaries came to an end when the criminal mastermind plugged in a jacked Xbox Live, leading the cops directly to his door. More »GameStop Clerk Shot During Robbery
An employee at the GameStop store in Orange County, Florida, was shot earlier today during an armed robbery. More »Missouri Man Serving 10 in the Can for Xbox Live Hookup
A 27-year-old man met a 15-year-old girl over Xbox Live, then drove 30 hours to Central California to have sex with her, and now is looking at 10 years in the federal slammer. More »Console Thefts Up 285%
Data released by the FBI today reveals that the number of reported thefts of video game consoles in the United States in 2009 has risen by an amazing 285% over the 2007 figures. More »Game Voice Actress Received Death Threats
Yurika Ochiai, a voice actress with credits in visual novel ToHeart2 and Konami's Quiz Magic Academy, has announced on her blog that she is the victim of several death threats against her. More »Pot, Video Games, Child Care: Which One Is Not Like the Other?
A Florida father is looking at a long and uncomfortable tour of the justice system after getting high, gaming all night, and then falling asleep on his 7-month-old daughter, suffocating her in the process. More »Detroit Shopper Gets Cray-Cray When He Can't Return a Console
The ancient Chinese curse reads, "May you live in interesting times." So when a GameStopper says "It was an interesting day here," you know he's not talking about big sales. More »Cyber Monday GameStop Robbery
Of all the shopping-heavy days in the year, two robbers in Maplewood, Missouri picked Cyber Monday as the likeliest day to do their "shopping" at GameStop in person. With a weapon. More »Teen Calls 911 After Parents Take Away Xbox 360
According to The Chicago Tribune, a 15-year-old called 911 and then hung up. He wanted to know whether or not his parents were within their rights to take away his Xbox 360. More »PS3: It Only Catches a Predator
Federal agents typically used $1,100 computers to crack passwords to the seized hard drives of suspected child pornographers. Now they're using $300 PlayStation 3s to pull off the same task. More »Heist Nets 100 Copies of Modern Warfare 2
Conflict currency - it's not cash, but goods or valuables that are small, easily liquidated, easily smuggled. Diamonds are the classic example. We might have to add Modern Warfare 2 to the list, after what just went down in Pennsylvania. More »PS3: It Only Does Kidnapping ...
A Florida teenager says he was kidnapped at gunpoint, driven to a Walmart and forced to buy his captors a PlayStation 3 for the new super-low price of $299.99. Cops have arrested one suspect. More »Oh No! Mario & Luigi Wanted For Assaulting NY Cabbie
With New Super Mario Bros. Wii hitting this weekend, you'd think the bros would be on their best behavior. But cops are on the lookout for Mario and Luigi following an assault on a New York cabbie. More »Wii-Bowling Drug Cops Get Off Lite
A-member them law enforcement perfesshunals down in Florida who killed time on a raid by bowling up big scores on a drug kingpin's Wii? Well, 11 of them got sanctioned for their conduct, but not too hard, now. More »Nintendo Thanks People For Ratting Out R4 Retailers
Akihabara Killer Says He Deserves Death
In June 2008, tragedy struck Tokyo's video game/anime/manga district Akihabara. Tomohiro Kato stabbed over 15 individuals, killing 7. He now says he deserves death. More »To Catch A Modern Warfare 2 Cyber-Thief
Modern Warfare 2 is already making an appearance at torrent sites all over the internet, but it could have been worse. Dean Takahashi reports on how IPCybercrime stopped one pirate from making his big score. More »Schizo Teen Goes on Drunken Ax Rampage After FIFA Losing Streak
> A schizophrenic teenager who killed a grandmother with an axe during a drunken rampage after a FIFA losing streak went on trial this week. More »Dad Kills Son Over Missing Video Game
Houstonian Ofelio Antonio Otero, 40, allegedly shot and killed his 17-year-old son yesterday morning after arguing with him about a missing video game. More »Postman Swipes 2,200 Gamefly Games
A Philadelphia-area postal worker with sticky fingers has admitted to intercepting $86,000 worth of games originally intended for subscribers of GameFly's video game rental service. More »German Activist Group's "Killer Game" Toss Makes Me Uncomfortable
Game Politics reports that a German advocacy group wants people to bring their "killer games" to the front of an opera house to throw away. One lucky tosser (har, har) will win a signed jersey from a sports team. More »