World leader in GunBound kidnapped and he is not surrenderring his user account. How strong willed. Maybe he knows the kidnappers are just a bunch of childish kids - which they are by the way.
Gang Kidnaps Gamer to Get Password Using Fake Orkut Date
An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim’s head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000.
The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn’t say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.
According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account. (more…)
We always see people blaming violent games for crimes in the city. And of course, we have people saying otherwise. Jack Thompson would just go screaming that violent games are bad for the society but are they really that bad?
Since Doom was released in 1993, violent crimes in the United States have to 40% of what they used to be. Coincidence? Possibly, yes. However, the year Quake and Duke Nukem 3D were released, violent crimes fell by 4%, and a further 2% when Grand Theft Auto was released.
Of course, merely quoting some statistics is not going to convince anyone. But let us be reminded once again that there is no conclusive statistics to point violent games lead to more crimes. Perhaps we should look into other ways to dealing with city crimes and stop blaming the bloody (no puns intended) violent games.
I don’t really visit arcades because the whole blending of noise by all the gaming machines just drive me nuts. It’s not the volume of the sound. It’s the mixture. But many teenagers visit them religiously to drive racing cars. They probably don’t have a driving licence. Anyway, the Japanese are pretty good in those music-related games, such as this guy:
Crazy Japanese Arcade Game skills!!
I’m a little envious. I suck badly in those games. My coordination is pretty bad.
Mario and Peach Princess quarrels! The post-Mushroom Kingdom adventures of everyone’s favorite Brooklynite plumber. Mario and Peach and now in the real world and Mario still likes to eat those mutated mushrooms, it’s almost like taking drugs.
I chunk this under parody although this isn’t quite a parody. What do you call this type of videos?
