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Chilluns EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Kid reports parents to cops after they take his Xbox 36 Yet more evidence that children are stupid and should be mass-executed has arrived today, with word of a young boy in Illinois who called the cops after his parents took his Xbox (we assume a 360... Hotel bans games for Christmas in the name of families 34 Videogames should be a part of every Christmas in a spiritual, traditional, and legally-enforced sense. Unfortunately, however, our letters to the United Nations demanding that anybody not playin... Man kills his son over a missing videogame (facepalm) 159 A forty-year-old man becoming enraged beyond reason over a missing videogame is worrying enough, but when you find out he's prepared to kill his family for it, things enter a whole new level of d... Pediatricians say videogames as bad as smoking 73 Sensationalist headline is GO! While the headline up there is true I have actually twisted the words around a bit to make it seem even more shocking and appalling so as to grab your attention. Ho... MGS: Peace Walker on PSP so children can play it 37 Oh Hideo Kojima, you shady old bastard, you! The Metal Gear Solid creator has explained why the latest game in his stealth series, Peace Walker, is on the PlayStation Portable, despite looking ep... Videogames: They cripple your kids now 47 It's time yet again for another scientific study that may or may not prove videogames are detrimental to your health! The mainstream media is lapping up a brand new report that suggests videogame... Wii used to bribe children into being better people 11 Throughout the many eons that man has raised children one fact has been universally accepted by all those involved in the raising of said children: bribery will get you everywhere. It may not see... Finally you'll be able to make Halloween cards on the Wii 9 Not to be shown up by the Xbox LIVE Indie game, Pumpkin Carver, 505 Games has something up its sleeve for Wii owners: Halloween Greeting Card for the Wii. Rated by the ESRB (for everyone, ob... 15-year-old set on fire over $40 videogame debt 101 A group of kids are currently in detention for setting one of their peers on fire over a $40 videogame debt. Micheal Brewer was set alight at an apartment complex in Deerfield Beach, Florida, whe... Kids love Nintendo more than anything... EVAR 16 Remember the Nintendo 64 kid? How could you forget, really. Sometimes I can't go to sleep because his shrill screams haunt me. The majority of us probably thought he overreacted a bit to the gift... This woman is giving birth to a Drybones 42 I have no idea what kind of men this expectant mother has been sleeping with, but it appears that the result has been a tummy full of Drybones. This ultrasound quite clearly shows an undead Koopa... Singapore gamers forge ludicrous suicide pact (update) 56 Eight Singapore fans of Japanese game Slayers entered into a suicide pact so that they could become "Slayers" themselves and kill demons in World War III. The "pact" lasted tw... Today, it is legal to sell adult games to kids in the UK 47 It's always been considered illegal to sell adult-rated videogames and movies to minors in the UK, ever since the Video Recordings Act of 1984. However, it's been discovered today that the requir... Videogames: They cause gambling now 36 Laziness, murder, suicides. Videogames have been linked to all sorts of sin and vice, so what's one more problem to throw on the pile? New "research" (i.e, some people with an agenda a... Fairytale Fights has a 'Kill 1,000 Children' Achievement 25 Oh, sweet controversy! Tongue-in-cheek hack-n'-slash game Fairytale Fights may be the very first console game to reward players for murdering kids, including as it does an Xbox 360 Achievement fo... Study says videogames are to blame for back trouble 52 Before we get started, I would like to note that naively searching "back trouble" on Google Images yields some unexpected results after a few pages. Anyway, a study conducted by a Queen... Young EGM reader can't cancel new Maxim subscription 45 What is it about having a child that turns so many women into compulsive complaint-filers overnight? Whenever something happens on TV, on the radio, or in videogames, you can guarantee that a gag... Tell your kids: LotR: Aragorn's Quest has sort of been dated 13 I'm both mad and happy that The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn's Quest is aged at a demographic of which I don't belong. I'm upset because for once, we are getting a videogame that has a blue sky, bu... Porn ads in game magazines show lack of morality? 35 UK gaming magazines are full of ads for porn, sex toys and dirty phone lines. Anybody who has bought an Imagine-published mag will tell you that they are, in fact, the best bits. However, one Bri... Too much gaming time may raise kids' blood pressure 39 Lots of things can raise your blood pressure -- traffic jams, stressful days at work, pictures of mostly naked girls writhing on a bed of cherries. Apparently the latest in this list is videogame... Game critic wants ten-day ban on videogames for schoolkids 43 Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is a name that pops up in anti-videogame circles now and then. He's an author and former military man who believes that children can train themselves to become snipers by p... How to make 1 million dollars before your balls drop 32 Hey, you! Yea, you! Do want to make money quick? Do you want women, power and fast cars? Do you want to be snorting cocaine off a hooker within the next six weeks? Well, if you're Lil' Poison, Ar... Punk kid hits people with car doors, Grand Theft Auto blamed 32 You know the drill by now. Some filthy little sh*thead decides to be antisocial and delinquent, then tries to dodge accountability by blaming videogames, something he knows will deflect the blame... Thailand planning cyber cafe curfew for kids 16 Thailand's ridiculous crackdown on videogames continues apace, with the country's authorities devising yet more ways in which they can ruin everybody's fun. Concerned now about "addiction&qu... China ends electric shock treatment for Internet addicts 34 Did you know that China has been introducing game-loving children to the wacky world of electric shock therapy? That's right -- parents have been willingly signing their children up for a course ... Pedophile blames videogames for being a pedophile 44 Blaming videogames for your sins is all the rage, and it's such a hip movement that even dirty pedophiles are doing it! 38-year-old Ontario man Michael Cherry loves him some kiddy porn, but in pl... Sesame Street approves of videogames 14 While politicians and moral crusaders have done their best to criticize videogames and preach about their perceived ill effects, Sesame Street (by way of the Joan Glanz Clooney Center at Sesame W... Best Mario/Luigi/little boy/fruit snacks 'rap' video EVER! 31 There is no real context for why I am posting this video for all of you to see. To be honest, my friend just forwarded it to me and I laughed so hard I felt the need to share.In the early ‘... NG Sigma 2: 14-year-old has huge boobs, new face 55 Koei Warriors had a recent chat with Team Ninja about Koei Tecmo's first official videogame, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. The PS3 exclusive is a reworking of the original Ninja Gaiden 2, with extra feat... New UK game rating symbols: Pictures of numbers! 20 With the news that PEGI has become the UK's sole game rating system, a brand new set of game rating symbols have appeared. These new symbols share similiarities with the old PEGI ones, but have b... Koei Tecmo paying people to f*ck in the name of repopulation 41 How do you cure Japanese underpopulation? Have loads of sex! How do you make sure people are having sex? If you're Koei Tecmo, you pay your employees thousands of dollars to do it! That's right, ... Boy accidentally shoots brother dead over videogame fight 56 I'm sure we've all wanted to shoot our brothers at some point, but 11-year-old  De-Andre Finley went that extra mile, accidentally killing his 9-year-old sibling after a videogame row ended ... 11-year-old 'genius' hates videogames 112 Moshe Kai Cavalin, an 11-year-old graduate from East Los Angeles College, is one smart little kid. However, he has proven that pure intelligence is no substitute for sense and taste, claiming tha... Videogames and CO poisoning, together at last! 6 Videogames cause rape, murder, domestic abuse, obesity and now they are kind of responsible for CO poisoning. That's the word coming from a new report that says people are using gas-powered gener... Boy kills himself after being banned from games 61 A 12-year-old Bangkok boy leapt to his death from a sixth floor veranda after his parents decided to ban him from videogames. The boy was an avid gamer, and it was deemed that his addiction was t... Woman loves videogames more than one-year-old son 25 A Kennesaw woman has incontrovertibly proven that videogames are better than children after being arrested for abandoning her one-year-old son in a vehicle so she could get a gaming fix at a near... The doctor is in, and he'll stop your kids playing Xbox 61 The world of lazy parenting has gotten a shot in the arm with the launch of the GameDr, a brand new invention that will revolutionize the way that children are half-heartedly disciplined by adult... Fallout 3 rewards you for 'pulverizing women', claims critic 50 God-fearing Web site Every Day Christian has today published a handy little guide for idiotic parents, giving family-focused videogame critic Bob Waliszewski's thumbs-up and thumbs-down on a vari... Mario Kart Wii teaches schoolkids to drive safely 22 Children at Vail Christian High School near Eagle in Colorado are currently being taught how to drive safely, and how not to use a cellphone while getting from A to B. Of course, because most pe... Guitar videogames lead to real guitar lessons 19 Sure, you're not really playing anything when you pick up the guitar controller to play Guitar Hero or Rock Band. But for some kids, the guitar games could lead to the desire to take real lessons... Six-year-old boy asks King to change his name to Sonic X 31 I don't know if this story is heartwarming or distressing, but it tells the tale of a six-year-old Norwegian boy called Christer who wants more than anything in the world to be called Sonic X. Ac... Baby shaking game pulled from iPhone store 35 A $0.99 iPhone game has been pulled from the Apple Store after generating a wave of controversy for its tasteless (yet undeniably righteous) subject matter. The App's called Baby Shaker and is, a... If you like little girls, we've found you a dress-up game! 71 Sometimes we get the most random tips sent in to Destructoid HQ, and sometimes we feel the need to chase them up just in case there's an interesting story at the end of them. Every now and then, ... Idiot kid tries to swap handgun for PSP at school 34 A foolish child caused his middle school to be locked down this past week after bringing in a handgun. However, rather than pay tribute to Columbine or Virginia Tech, the boy had brought the fire... Man beats six-year-old over game performance ... wait, what? 41 Let's have a really messed up story to reinstall our collective faith in humanity, shall we? It's being reported that a 50-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of beating up his six-year-o... 3 million kids are 'pathological gamers' ... apparently 20 It's been a while since children were used to make videogames sound terrifying, but luckily the State University of Iowa has delivered, with a study making the claim that 8.5% of American childre... Force girls to do handstands so you can see their panties 34 You can always count on Japan to skim the line between child molestation and charming merriment. A new erotic game from the country that makes rape fun, Hypnotism Class, grants players the power ... Pedisedate: Gassing your kids, one Game Boy game at a time 78 You are so not ready for this.A new piece of medical equipment is being tested right now called the Pedisedate. Basically, it is a headset that is placed on a child before they are admitted to su... Lucky little boy gets PSP crammed with porn 36 Six-year-old Eliso Tovar was given a late Christmas present by his mother recently in the form of a PSP. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the gift that kept on giving, when it was discovered th... Animal Crossing fans are pedophiles, according to Missouri cop 65 While it's great to see cops tackle the growing problem of sexual predation in an online world, misinformed finger pointing and jumping to suspect conclusions won't solve anything. Such is the ca... Prat uses PS3 to get kiddy porn, then distributes it like a moron 36 A man from Kentucky has been arrested after convincing an 11-year-old girl to send nude photos of herself via Sony's black box o' Blu-ray. In a world before Killzone 2, we could have made a cleve... More Killzone 2 ads pulled after child 'saw a monster' 48 Following the pulling of Killzone 2 adverts in Toronto, it seems that a nearby bus company is jumping on the bandwagon. The York Region Transit line of bus shelters had received a complaint about... Two-year-old for sale over Xbox Live. One previous owner. 25 There's been a bit of controversy in Florida after nasty pranksters spammed Xbox Live and offered a two-year-old girl for sale. The worst part of the prank? The girl was real, and the unwitting m... Hospital builds commemorative game room for 13-year-old patient 15 Evan Patrick Bell, a 13-year-old, was one of us: a gamer. This teen recently died of a brain tumor, though.To honor him, the Wolfson Children's Hospital has raised funds to build a hospital game ... Change4Life campaign strongly implies that gaming leads to death 26 A campaign aimed at stimulating young people in a bid to fight heart disease and diabetes has caused outrage in the gamer community for using videogames as a scapegoat. British games publication ... CBC news exposing the 'dark side' of gaming 33 Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. Despite the Brandon Crisp thing happening months ago, CBC has nevertheless decided to hop onto the late bandwagon and strongly implicate videogames in his death. Apparen... 74 percent of UK mums think gaming is educational 11 Good for you, UK moms. This data comes from a new Microsoft Play Safe, Play Smart study, which, according to Microsoft, "uncovers the differing views of parents and children when it comes to... Shocker: Kids love violent videogames, want M-rated titles 13 A rather redundant study has shown that young people love adult-oriented videogames, with M-rated titles proving popular among filthy youths. Apparently, we needed research to conclude that peopl... Videogame consoles now cause skin sores: Their list of crimes grows! 24 Just when you think that videogames couldn't be blamed for anything else, along come those famous experts to identity a skin condition caused by gaming. "PlayStation palmar hidradenitis"... Violent media = good for children? 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