"Game of Life"

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/08/teen-hospitalized-with-dehydration-after-4-day-xbox-marathon/1#.UCK2mfaPUsc

A 15-yar-old Ohio boy named Tyler collapsed and was taken to the hospital for dehydration after playing Modern Warfare 3 on his X-Box for a marathon, 4-day session.  The boy knew his life was in danger, but thought that if he died, he still had 2 more lives.

The boy did pause game play to take bathroom breaks.  In serious gaming circles, this is known as being a “coward” or “quitter.”

Tyler was very upset in the ambulance, because all the way to the hospital, the driver didn’t shoot anyone else on the road.

At the hospital, Tyler wanted to administer his own IV, because he’s an expert 1^st-person shooter.

He is expected to make a full recovery, but earns no points while he’s down and lost his special weapons.

“The Big Con”

The annual comic book and entertainment convention Comic-Con kicked off in San Diego Thursday.  The convention visitors dress in their coolest outfit, try to impress other attendees, and spend so much money that by the end, they feel like they know what it’s like to have been on a date.

Excited conventioneers have waited all year for the chance to see excusive footage of upcoming movies, TV shows, video games, and more.  Meanwhile, excited parents have waited all year to have their 30-year old sons out of the house for a weekend.

"Virtual Rights"

Last week, The Supreme Court struck down a California law that would have banned selling violent video games to kids, based on First Amendment rights issues.  The law's intention was to get kids off the couch and outside, where they can commit crimes for real.

“Game Over”

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/12/release-of-video-game-of-jewish-uprising-at-auschwitz-canceled/1

Programmers have cancelled the release of a bloody, Auschwitz-set video game where players pretend to be concentration camp prisoners rebelling against their Nazi captors. Game-makers are far more optimistic about the upcoming release of their more tasteful video games: Nursing Home Neglect: the Revenge, Twin Towers Escape: The Race Down Stairwell E, and Pre-Civil War Plantation: Slave Rebellion.

Iranian President Mahmoud Amidinejad denies that the game ever even existed.