I feel instantly cool that I was tangentially part of a Gamesradar story, namely the PAX plague. Didn't get anything, but it WAS momentarily surreal that we were all going to die.

@DrFailgood and @Styrophoamicus - The exploding head on the first page is from a movie: David Cronenberg's "Scanners" (1981), starring Patrick McGoohan and Michael Ironside.

Wow, people getting violent because you don't share their point of view can be called either "get a lifer's" or "nazis".

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Man that gamerwidow site is hilarious.

3 words: Get a grip

I remember 'Nintendo killed my son' it because he was playing UN Squadron.

By printing this article you promote the same sensationalism the media uses in these
situations. You can not blame the developers for crimes perpetrated by people using their games. If a person who regularly watches Dexter kills somebody, you can't blame Dexter for influencing tht5a person to kill someone; they had the criminal motive and capability long before Dexter "influenced" them.

In regards to the individual cases you discussed:

10. The game in no way caused these reactions, that was the result of the people's obsessive personalities

9. There are no obsessive games, only obsessive people.

8. This escaped everyone, not just the games industry. And we do now have warnings. Besides, that was a TV show, not a game.

7. How the Karmapa Lama saying something many rational people already know is a bad thi9ng is beyond me. There is nothing wrong with virtual violence, especially if it prevents violence IRL.

6. The fact that this incident was caused by PLAYER ACTIONS in the game and not the game itself proves these people have problems that extend beyond video games if they were willing to result to such drastic actions.

5. This is the kind of passive agression that happens outside of these situations, and to perfectly honest, the bitch kinda deserved it.


4. The capability to do something illegal in the game, when it was not intended to be done in-game, is not the fault of the developer but the fault of the perpetrator.

3. PAX isn't a game, and this easily could've happened at any convention.

2. If somebody uses a Prius to smuggle marijuana, is it Toyota's fault?

1. The deaths were caused by starvation and sleep deprivation, not the game. Their deaths were caused by their own irresponsible behavior.

The point I'm trying to make here is that if you blame the game, you miss the actual reason why it happened, and prevent people from causing this to not happen again.

hahhahahaha the head exploding made me laugh

siezure warnings are another example of health and safety gone mad

Aw man, I totally missed the custom sodomy in Mass Effect. Was that a side quest or something??

Why did I have this gut feeling that that Pokemon episode that gave a few hundred kids seizures was going to be mentioned?

1. I8Luigi, this is poking fun at all of this. You need to get a life.
2. Runescape kicks ass. Great childhood memories there.
3. Haha, Pokemon seizure.

Great stuff but I have heard some suuuper crazy EVE stories. Especially involving real life violence and economy stuffs... I'd love to see some of that crap documented.

darn... I was going to say something, but I8luigi already said that and more.

As one of the hundreds of people laid up at PAX by H1N1 (aka swine flu, aka H1Nerd1, aka bacon plague, aka POX, aka Porkinson's, aka hamthrax), the effects of which I am STILL recovering from, I do say that it's placement at #3 is exceptionally appropriate.

I remember when the Poke mon seizure happened lol...

That was a fantastic article. Dugg!

"Donkey Bong" is classic. If only I had the photoshop skill.

Oh, I remember the rage from watching that fox ''SEXBOX'' report. Good times.

Well yeah thats why the episode of Porygon was canceled, it caused about 60 (I think) Japanese kids to have seizures