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Like the rest of the country, Grand Theft Auto IV has been sucking up the majority of my gaming time over the last few weeks. Last night I chased down a couple bikers for Ray and eliminated the guy that was gay bashing Bernie.
I’ve also been playing a decent amount of Mass Effect, which I still haven’t completed. Both are awesome Xbox 360 games.
In the last week, a father killed his daughter for breaking his Xbox, another father killed his daughter for using Facebook and a boy killed his father for banning him from Myspace.
A Philadelphia man killed his 17-month-old daughter with five blows to the head after she pulled down his Xbox console from a high surface, breaking the machine. The blows cracked the girl’s skull according to an AP article.
The man was sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
In Saudi Arabia, a man beat up and shot his daughter because she was talking to a man via Facebook according to the Daily Mail.
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Nearly two years after the Xbox 360 was launched on Nov. 22, 2005, I finally broke down and purchased one for myself on Friday.
I had been waiting for the dust to settle between the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 war in order to see which system came out on top. Not to mention the surprising success of the Nintendo Wii, which I still haven’t yet played. Knowing that Nintendo games tend to angle themselves a little more towards a younger audience, I knew it would come down to the Xbox or PS3.
Even now, there is no clear-cut winner. I had been feeding my gaming addiction with healthy doses of World of Warcraft and Command & Conquer 3: Tibirium Wars on my PC over the past year. But my itch to get a high-end console was getting too strong to ignore.
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