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Video Game Glitch Spurs Death Threats Against Creator



How passionate are you about the video games you play? Wait. Don't answer that.

We know some of our readers are serious gaming aficionados, but some gamers have taken their passion to an extreme. Case in point: When a glitch was found in a popular puzzle game made for the Sony PSP mobile platform, the game creator, Australian-based Infinite Interactive, actually received death threats.

The game, called 'Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords,' has a fault during sequences with computer-controlled characters who battle each other. The company CEO says he has now received six death threats, plus one bomb threat. While he and his colleagues do take the threats seriously, they say they're not worried since all of the threats originated in the United States. The messages even carried the sender's e-mail addresses.

This isn't the first time we've heard of gamers taking their passion to a possibly violent extreme. There's the kid who hired a hitman to kill his parents after his PlayStation privileges were taken away. And then there's the man who killed his neighbor after he thought the guy had stolen his PlayStation 3.

Sometimes, gamers even do it to themselves, with one marathon gaming session possibly contributing to the player's death. People are getting a little wrapped up in their video games, we say. May we suggest spending a little more time outdoors? [Source: News.com.au.]

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