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Pipe-Wielding Florida Man Attempts Grand Theft 360

David Oxford — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:53 +0000

There are many ways one can acquire an Xbox 360. You can work hard, earn your fee, and save up to purchase one. You can trade in old games and accessories you don’t use any more in order to help negate the price tag. You can receive one as a gift.

Or, if you’re one man in Palm Coast, Florida, you can arm yourself with a pipe, break into someone’s house, and demand that the residing family hand theirs over.

Such is the story of one Allan M. Crosswell, 52, who thought his brilliant plan was a shoe-in for obtaining the object of his desire. Unfortunately for him, it seems the residents had no phobias related to pipes or other plumbing equipment, and soon forced him outside before locking the door and calling the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

According to the report, deputies were able to arrest Crosswell outside the residence without incident. From there, he was charged with armed home invasion and aggravated assault before being taken to the Flagler County Inmate Facility, where he was being held Thursday for $10,000 bail.

Just think: that $10,000, should anyone come up with it, could have bought the new-and-improved Xbox 360, some extra controllers, headsets, and a whole lot of games and LIVE Gold subscriptions. But now, it looks like any games he’ll be playing won’t be coming from Microsoft.

Source: The Daytona Beach News-Journal (via Destructoid)

Gears 2 Goes Gold, Forum User Boasts Broken Release Date Hours Later

Chad Lakkis — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:20:38 +0000

Today in WTF! news, Gears of War 2 is announced as having gone gold (which means the game has been finalized), and just a few hours after that, the game surfaces in the hand of a mysterious figure on the popular Neogaf gaming forum.

Coincidence? Bullshit? It doesn’t matter. What matters is that every time something like this happens the collective butt-cheeks of software executives clench in unison.

Eventually, games will come with remote detonators that sense a premature case ejection. Removing a game from its container before the specified release date will cause it to explode violently, and affected individual will have a hard time convincing anyone that they didn’t deserve every piece of gaming shrapnel they end up having to dislodge from their face.

Hey, I love reporting news and rumors as much as the next guy, but if continuously pushed, it’s not far fetched to think that developers will find better ways to protect themselves and the media they create at the expense of time and resources that could have been spent developing better content. Everything comes with a price.

Motorcycle SUV Collision the Result of “Video Game Adventure” (Video)

Chad Lakkis — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:13:15 +0000

I have often thought about purchasing a giant Winnebago and going on a cross country “adventure”. Maybe pulling over on the side of the road from time to time for a “video game” break or two.

While my adventure would include the occasional use of video games, it wouldn’t be a “video game adventure”, no, those are reserved for idiot cyclists like the one below.

News out of Utah is that a motorcycle wrecked into a family of four traveling in an SUV. Thankfully, no one was hurt. The troopers who arrived at the scene interrogated the cyclist about the accident, and he responded by saying he was on a video game adventure. One office added:

“I don’t know whether he was trying to act out a scene in a video game or what he was trying to do, but he said it always worked for him in video games”

This is one Utah resident who shouldn’t be allowed to play video games, let along operate a motorcycle on the open road.

Source: ksl.com (via GoNintendo)