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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. More »
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I think this is a marketing stunt. I don't think they're really going to kill Daniel Benmergui if we don't collectively talk about Bunch of Heroes. More »
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The accused shooter in yesterday's massacre in Norway has been linked to a 1,500 page manifesto that recommends using Call of Duty to train combat skills for an upcoming war with Islam. More »
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While Ubisoft's still-secret, yet-to-be named Rainbow Six game skipped an E3 appearance this year, it is still very much in the works we're told. More »
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Video games let us be heroes. They let us don the cape, wave the flag, put on the badge, hoist the blue lightsaber or simply face the fires of dragons to save the princess. More »
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The line between gaming and reality blurs as the President and members of his security team watch the hunt for Osama reach its long-awaited conclusion. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5797871&view=rss&microfeed=true Twitter is freaking out right now over news that Osama bin Laden is dead. Jill Jackson, a producer for CBS News, seems to have broken the story on her feed. President Obama has called a news conference...Developing.… [Gawker] More »
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Newly released documents from Wikileaks related to Guantánamo Bay prisoners have an unusual video game connection. According to the Department of Defense's assessment records for Guantánamo detainees Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed—who confessed to masterminding the 9/11 terrorist attacks—Al Qaeda once used Sega cartridges as explosives devices. More »
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 may have influenced the deadly attack on Russia's busiest airport earlier this week, state run news network Russia Today suggests. More »
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This 3D model of Bangalore's Garuda Mall would be right at home in a modern video game, but it's much more than that. It's part of a simulation aimed at helping emergency response teams deal with the all-too-real possibility of a terrorist attack. More »
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Federal authorities say a Florida man exported PS2s to a Paraguayan mall believed to be a front for the terrorist organization Hezbollah. He's been indicted on 11 counts tied to the funding of terrorism. More »
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The Associated Press is reporting that increased security measures on international flights inbound to the United States have been eased. The government has not publicly announced any changes, but the AP's report cites unnamed airline officials "familiar with the matter." More »
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I found myself doing something strange as I prepared for a 14 hour flight back to the United States this week: Buying games. More »
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It's not a petty concern. Since Friday's incident en route to Detroit, airlines are ramping up security procedures at the behest of the government, and "approved portable electronic devices" have long been a whipping boy for this sort of thing. More »
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The war on terrorism can be a real hassle, just ask anyone who has flown recently. Fortunately, science and the Wii have joined forces to try and cut-down on those mammoth airport security lines with the Fidget Monitor. More »
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Canadian actor and videogame voice specialist Michael Rudder was among the casualties in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai yesterday. The actor was dining at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai when militants opened fire. Rudder was hit by three bullets and rushed to hospital where he successfully underwent surgery and is expected to make a full recovery. You may recognise Rudder's voice from such games as Far Cry Instincts, Prince Of Persia: The Warrior Within (he played the Dark Prince), Jagged Alliance and - somewhat ironically - terrorist-slaying black ops game Splinter Cell. [UPDATE: to clarify, Michael Rudder did NOT play Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell - that was Michael Ironside, who to our knowledge has never been shot by terrorists of any kind. Rudder provided other voice work for the game.] Canadian actor recovering in Mumbai after being shot [CBC] More »
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Aw, bless. This one really tried to be offensive but it comes across like a three year old try to get a rise out of his grandparents by shouting "POO!" in public. More »
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So it's true - there really is a link between violence and video games. In an otherwise run of the mill article on how the next US President will have to deal with the issue of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the New York Times printed this little nugget: More »
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A report from Spiegel online points to someone who isn't that bright theorizing that Grand Theft Auto IV's designers were inspired by attacks from the Osama bin Laden lead terrorist group. Spiegel cites a member of a message board populated by "cyber-jihadists and al-Qa[e]da sympathizers" who contends that GTA IV's use of cellphone triggered bombs "shows the power and effectiveness" of, well, something Al-Qaeda related that is just too dumb to reprint. More »
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Members of the U.S. intelligence community are soon to be on the hunt for dangerous terrorist boogey-men inhabiting online games like World of Warcraft. At least, that's what what we assume they'll tell their superiors, when conducting a four-hour plus raid on taxpayer time. According to fun speculation from Wired, WoW might not just tell us who is going to blow up national treasure X or spread communicable disease Y, it may tell us how. More »
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Those of you read closely might have noticed that yesterday's mention of the Bandai Airport Panic LCD Game included a coy "part I" in its title. That's because I had another early videogame with airport terrorists up my sleeve. More »
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I'm very interested in airports and airport security. In fact, at Persuasive Games we have made not one but two games about airport security. But, what about earlier games about airports and terrorism? More »
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Tabloidish UK paper The Sun reports that the DS, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 have been banned from UK jails over fears they could be used to plan terror attacks. More »
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At this point in my airport adventures, I can only laugh when I see a story like this. Apparently a screener at the Long Beach Airport in California saw something suspicious in a piece of checked baggage around 9:30 am this morning and immediately called for an evacuation of the terminal, stranding five arriving planes on the tarmac as the authorities were brought in. The police, firefighters, and the bomb squad all rushed to the scene, only to determine after 90 minutes that the device in the bag belonging to someone working for, "some sort of game or toy company," turned out to be a handheld video game of unknown make and model in raw form, complete with exposed wiring. More »
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In a world gone mad...a Chinese high school student in Fort Bend Texas is arrested and then forced to attend an alternative education center when parents discover he has created a Counterstrike level based off of Clements High School for he and his friends to play on. The student had his home searched for weapons, was detained until it was determined no charges could be filed, and is now unable to graduate with his peers, all because of his mapmaking skills. More »
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Neither man, nor woman, nor furries, nor Wagner James Au is safe from terrorism, even when digitally ensconced in the Metaverse, as wild-eyed Warren Ellis describes a terrorist attack that took place in Second Life. More »
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Reuters is reporting that an Iranian group, using state-sponsored development, has modded the fan favorite team based FPS Counter-Strike to allow players to virtually train for demolition runs against oil tankers. From the report: More »
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We previously reported on the jihadist video game, Night of Bush Capturing (the stunning sequel to Carbomb Panty Raid), and now Game Politics says that a member of British parliament is so incensed that he's calling for an official investigation, and prosecution. More »
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Jonathan B. of the Gamebang Blog wrote us in about a curious Xbox 360 College Tour that occurred at his university on the fifth anniversary of September 11th... right across from a Red Cross Blood Drive. More »
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This should techinically be titled "shitting iPods = terrorism" but this is, after all, a gaming blog. More »
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We've already established that PSPs will reduce children to tears. Now we learn that they'll get you in trouble with homeland security, as well. More »
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Correction time! A little less than a week ago, we reported that intrepid jihadist modders were turning Battlefield 2 into Al-Qaeda training vids. In the time honored tradition of the copy-paste monkeys into which the lazy world of gaming "journalism" has made us, we took Reuters' initial article seriously. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=172506&view=rss&microfeed=true Just a few hours after we reported on one guild's apparent vicegrip over a server, the thread has been deleted and the guild, Imperial Order, revealed that it was all just a big joke. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=155897&view=rss&microfeed=true The Imperial Order, a World of Warcraft guild on the Detheroc server, is holding the server hostage. The guild has completed the various quests needed to obtain a septer used to ring a gong. Ringing the gong will open the gates giving everyone on the server access to new content, but the guild refuses to do it. At least, they refuse to do it until someone pays them 5,000 gold. More »
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