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Web murderer given life sentence

A man from Germany has been jailed for life after being found guilty of stabbing a Nottingham student 86 times after stalking his girlfriend.

David Heiss, 21, from Limburg, became infatuated with 20-year-old Matthew Pyke's girlfriend Joanna Witton via a series of internet exchanges.

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madmonkey06135d ago

"War games fanatic Matthew Pyke killed by gamer from Germany, police think
Internet war games fanatic Matthew Pyke was stabbed to death by a fellow player who flew from Germany to murder him after an online dispute, police believe."

jessehaysfl6135d ago

good to bad there is no death penalty

shotgunkiwi6135d ago

I followed the story outside of n4g. The guy had a laughable defense, basically saying that the deceased pulled a knife on him and he took the knife away and "didn't mean to hurt him" - however stabbing 86 times doesn't really count as self defense now does it. The knife was subsequently proved to be the murderers. He also tried to write a suicide note in the lettering of the deceased. Can anyone say busted?

Be glad justice was done - lets hope the media doesn't turn it into all about video games...

PS360WII6135d ago

True the gaming only gave the three people a shared hobby. The internet provided the ways of communication and subsequent stalking :(

I am happy they found the man guilty. The evidence against him was just too much.

Ashriel6134d ago

Well, I'm really glad he was given life sentence too. Btw, I knew about this here, in N4G ^^U. But it didn-t look like the media tried to turn on videogames again...

Phantom_T6135d ago

WHAT GAME.
WE MUST KNOW THE NAME SO WE CAN HEAP BLAME ON IT.
DOESN'T MATTER IF HE WAS ALREADY UNHINGED.
WHAT GAME.

The media,if you didn't already guess.

McRad6135d ago

I have that knife set in the story picture!!

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Keebmon’s “keyboard PC” promises RTX eGPU gaming - backers want proof

Darryl Linington from Notebookheck writes: "Keebmon is a crowdfunded foldable workstation concept that combines a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 PC, a 13-inch ultrawide touchscreen, and a low-profile mechanical keyboard in a single aluminum device."

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Blizzard Sends Legal Notice to bbno$ Over Diablo-Themed Website

bbno$ has temporarily shut down his website after receiving a legal notice from Blizzard Entertainment related to Diablo-themed content.

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Mulletino6d ago

More and more it seems like these gaming companies are at war with their fans.

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Video Game Stocks Plunge on Fears Google's Genie 3 Will Replace Game Engines

When Google unveiled Genie 3, an AI that generates explorable 3D worlds from simple text prompts, investors responded by dumping video game stocks en masse—wiping out billions in market value in mere hours. But in their rush to flee, Wall Street confused "playable environments" with actual video games, ignoring the technology's hard limits while threatening the human creativity that makes games worth playing. As the industry faces a future of automated mediocrity driven by shareholder demands, the panic reveals a deeper truth: investors aren't betting on better games, just cheaper ones.

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peppeaccardo23d ago

same level of fear that gen ai will replace art ... it is a tool that will help to prototipize open world games, but to completelly substitute game engines ... we are still a long way from it

z2g23d ago

Duplicate story. Or does Christopher just remove xbox stories that are similar?

Commentby23d ago

Humans have been developing things to simplify jobs since the beginning.
AI is going to remove the human factor from the job, but it can never replace all jobs that need a human factor.
I wish I could see the end of the story. What is the end, end goal, final piece, etc.
Is it a world run by machines, do humans live in a free world, does a dictator finally have an robot army, do humans finally free of working forever, does ChatGPT create an army to defeat Gemini., so many possibilities …