The ground breaking article from the NY Times, "Rethinking Addiction’s Roots, and Its Treatment" finally gets it right. After years, if not decades, of blaming the victims of drug addiction, this refreshing and important article makes the ...
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Some genius from Florida has been arrested after attempting to hold up a Subway restaurant with a PlayStation controller. In further news that saddens me, it was a standard pad and not one of the Move ...
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Fox News just guffed out another piece of nonsensical pish about videogames, this time attacking Bulletstorm (the latest game from Gears of War maker Epic) and interviewing a psychologist who claims sexual content in videogames results in ...
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A Nintendo 3DS has been stolen from a Chinese factory, more than eight weeks before the device goes on sale in Japan. The anonymous thief has since taken photos and shot footage of the console, spreading evidence ...
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A 17-year-old kid from Manchester in the United Kingdom single-handedly brought down the online mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops, one of the world's most popular games. It's sort of like a modern David vs. Goliath ...
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Sorry to turn on the sad, but here's a tragic reminder that, while we gamers may spend a lot of time defending our hobby against misguided accusations, a minority of people really shouldn't be playing so intensively.
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When Colleen Frable got sick of her jobless boyfriend playing his PlayStation 3 all day, she did what a few other gaming widows may have been tempted to do - she smashed the shit out of it ...
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The line between reality and the virtual world took another whack in the face today, with news that a player of popular MMO Eve Online has stolen in-game currency equal to $45,000. The scam was pulled off ...
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The two shining examples of humanity you see above are Eric S. LaChapelle (left) and Corey J. Chalich (right), a pair of PlayStation 3 owners who took an online gaming beef a step too far.
These two New ...
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A pair of robbers got a nasty shock when they attempted to rob the PC Gamerz gaming cafe in Kaneohe, Hawaii at the weekend. Rather than meekly hand over their money and gaming gear, the gamers in ...
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For the second time in as many weeks, here's a story about someone who left the big city to escape crime only to be mugged again in a calmer setting.
83-year-old former TV actress Betty Lou Lynn, who ...
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A truly tragic story from Chile today, where a 16-year-old boy has stabbed his own brother to death during an argument over a PlayStation 3.
It's harrowing stuff, but what gets me is the nature of the dispute. ...
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22-year-old Jeremiah Gilliam of the Bronx is heavy on criminal tendencies, but a little light on gray matter. Police recently raided Gilliam's flat and nabbed him for carrying out almost 200 car larcenies and a good few ...
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Remember the brat who phoned the cops after his parents took away his Xbox 360? Well, now the parents are at it, with one mother from Boston calling in the fuzz after her 14-year-old son refused to ...
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Maurice Clemmons, the man suspected of the shooting deaths of four police officers in a coffee shop near McChord Air Force base in Washington state, has been shot and killed after a late-night run in with police.
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Four uniformed police officers were shot dead in a coffee shop near McChord Air Force Base in Washington State this morning, in what authorities say was not a robbery.
The four officers, three men and a woman, were ...
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True (and depressing) story: some little sod from Illinois has called 911 on his parents after they punished him by taking away his Xbox 360. Ugh.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the boy hung up before the emergency ...
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Generous Texans are feeling duped and angry after it came to light that a woman who solicited over $10K in donations to treat her breast cancer used the funds to upgrade her healthy breasts.
Trista Joy Lathern, 24, ...
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Voicing the frustration anyone who's spent $250 on a window broken for $0.64 in change and a half a Kit-Kat, this man calls out the dick who broke his ocarina.
I feel you, dude. My driver's side window ...
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New footage of Nintendo's Mario and Luigi assaulting a cab driver has sent shockwaves through the Mushroom Kingdom.
Or, to be more accurate (if I must), a pair of scumbags dressed as the Nintendo duo beat up and ...
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A Milwaukee Army Reservist got a pleasant surprise during a mugging, when the four men who accosted him had a change of heart.
The men singled out the 21-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student as he was walking home ...
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University of Connecticut cornerback Jasper Howard was killed during an early morning incident on campus in which two people were stabbed.
Howard, 20, was airlifted to a local hospital but died of his injuries. Police say the incident ...
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