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  • Virtual game rivalry turns into real death
    Wednesday 31 January 2007 – 11:09
    One gamer is dead after he and another online gamer turned their virtual rivalry into a real-life fight. A few dozen players of Lineage II, a popular online multiplayer game from NCSoft, met at a Moscow café and began fighting. The group then took the fight outside where Alexander Blyoskin and Alexander Ponamorenko started trading blows. Blyoskin fell to the ground and died several days later from head trauma.
  • Death row inmate executed after glitch prevents appeal
    Friday 12 October 2007 – 06:39
    Washington (DC) - A Texas man was subjected to death by lethal injection after a computer glitch reportedly prevented his appeal from being filed on time.
  • WinFS back-burnering could spell death sentence for next-gen file system
    Monday 26 June 2006 – 11:50
    It was supposed to have been the "holy grail" of the next generation Windows operating system - at least, that's how Bill Gates introduced it in 2003. Now, with the thunder mostly subsided and interest in an object-oriented, relational file system waning in the wake of Google Desktop, Microsoft's WinFS has been demoted, likely for the last time.
  • 911 glitch allegedly leads to death, lawsuit
    Monday 1 October 2007 – 11:32 in Business
    Pittsburgh (PA) - A glitch at a local Pennsylvania 911 call center caused hundreds of calls to go unanswered and led to the death of at least one child, according to a recently filed lawsuit. According to local media reports, John Kasecky found his five- ...
  • Crocodile Hunter death devours Australian bandwidth
    Monday 4 September 2006 – 11:28
    The death of Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter", at around 1100 (0100 GMT) whilst filming a documentary on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, has driven Australian internet traffic through the roof

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  • The Death of a LAN Party: Community Party to Corporate Plunder*
    Wednesday 12 July 2006 – 01:36
    The Death of a LAN Party: Community Party to Corporate Plunder What has happened to the traditional LAN Party? These days, it seems like parties have morphed from community gatherings with friendly competitions corporate controlled mega-events that seem more focused on marketing and consumerism than gaming. Darren Polkowski explores the crisis of the dying LAN Party.
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  • Life after Death for the Xbox*
    Saturday 26 November 2005 – 06:00
    The day of the Xbox 360 has arrived. But forget about that heap of shiny hype and empty promise and go back to the good old, tried and tested Xbox. Games aren't old if you haven't played them already, after all...

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