Essay: Digital Murder
…Right-wingers who back legislation like the Child Online Protection Act are always saying kids have to be worried about meeting strangers who offer sexual content online. Dangerous pedophiles await, ready to snare any kid innocent enough to start chatting with them over Yahoo! or AOL I.M. Maybe what we really need is a Homosexual Online [...]
Virtual killer faces real jail after murder by mouse
Once the stuff of ropey science fiction movies, the crime of digital murder may be about to go on the books, following the arrest of a middle-aged piano teacher from southern Japan, who snapped and murdered her virtual husband. According to the Japanese media, the 43-year-old woman hacked into the computer of the man she [...]
Survival of Digital
Without the benefit of hindsight, it’s tough to say where, exactly, a tipping point occurs. In years to come, we’ll undoubtedly look back at this period in the games industry’s history and confidently pinpoint the year, or perhaps even the quarter, when the transition became a landslide. Today, however, all we can say with any [...]
