September Video Game News Highlights
Recap and commentary on the video game industry happenings from the last month
Grown Man chokes a plebe
It was only a matter of time really, until the testosterone-fuelled romp of the COD series seeped through the HD monitor and into our lives, growing in gamers' stomachs like some kind of 'hate-stew' until violent action is the only outlet.
For most of us, any form of completive gaming taps into a hemisphere of Neolithic anger. It transforms us from a civil gamer happily playing Farmville, to the simmering can of rage soup splashed in the face of an unruly waiter after we just were just shot by some camper.
Some of us will scream expletives into our headsets like a demented drill sergeant, others take a more physical approach, throwing a controller across the room, and some of us just take a time out.
For a man in England (somewhere in the north no doubt), he took the fourth option, personally laying the smack down on a child who constantly goaded him online.
There are a number of things disturbing about the story, and having knowledge of the Daily Mail and their penchant for massaging the truth to sell papers is one of the culprits. If they could, they would run a front-page image of a person with a flare shoved into a bodily orifice if they thought it would shift more units out of grim rubbernecking.
They claimed that the man in question 'tracked' and 'hunted' the kid down. It's not like some rom-com where the guy only knows the girl's net-handle and goes on a hilarious cross country adventure to find her. In reality, he knew the child and his parents; they lived next door to him, so within a matter of minutes his hands had a date with the child's neck.
In addition, it was reported that the man had mental health issues, so probably should not have been playing a game where killing avatars and insurmountable rage go hand in hand. Not to mention the kid as well, who was 13 playing a certified 18+ game.
I believe in some strange and karmic way things worked out like an after-school special. The child learned that he probably should not run his mouth off in the event a possible psychopath might find out where he is and exact some righteous/disproportionate act of vengeance.
All joking aside, the only good thing to come of the altercation is that the man was able to unlock the secret "He who chokes first, laughs last" achievement, thus enabling him a perfect 100/100 gamerscore for Black Ops. I'll go and crack open the bubbly.
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