6-year-old takes family car, tests video game knowledge on the road
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A 6-year-old boy from Virginia somehow managed to get the keys to his family’s car and take a drive to his school on Monday (and put his experience of driving in video games to the test).
The boy, whose name has yet to be released, missed his bus but was still intent on arriving to school somehow. With knowledge of driving from Grand Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam in mind, the boy drove a 2005 Ford Taurus about six miles towards his school and completed a few 90-degree turns before crashing.
Miraculously, the boy suffered just minor injuries. The poor kid, who seemed almost hellbent on completing his mission, began walking to school after he exited the car. County Sheriff Chuck Wilkins said, “When he got out of the car, he started walking to school. He did not want to miss breakfast and PE.” After crashing, the boy told police that his “driving experience” came from playtime of Grand Theft Auto and Monster Truck Jam video games. Isn’t it a bit strange that the boy’s parents allowed their 6-year-old to play an M-rated game?
Although he missed breakfast and perhaps PE as well, the boy was able to return to school after he was checked at a local hospital for injuries.
The story isn’t so bright for the boy’s parents. His mother and father were charged with child endangerment. The mother was asleep when the boy grabbed the keys and drove off on his adventure. As of now, the boy and his 4-year-old brother have been placed in protective custody.
Capcom hopes to surprise gamers soon
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“2009 will also see Resident Evil 5 finally released, and it’ll also then see us on to our next step. We haven’t shown what Capcom has in store for 2009 yet, so I hope we can surprise you all soon.” – Jun Takeuchi, producer of Resident Evil 5
Capcom’s Christian Svensson stated not too long ago that the company has some tricks up their sleeves for 2009…And then Monster Hunter G was revealed. I’m not entirely sure if Takeuchi is referring to the Wii when he mentions that he hopes Capcom can surprise us, but it is possible.
Complete list of games eligible for registration on Club Nintendo
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Wii Games
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
Endless Ocean
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Link’s Crossbow Training
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Party 8
Mario Strikers Charged
Mario Super Sluggers
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Pokemon Battle Revolution
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Paper Mario
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wario Land: Shake It!
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Wii Fit
Wii Music
Wii Play
Boy plays Sonic game and craves hedgehog, fights the law so he can have his own
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11 year-old Judson King, after becoming a Sonic the Hedgehog follower, decided that he desired his own hedgehog. Unfortunately for him, there was just one problem: Lawrence law in Kansas made owning such animals illegal in the area.
King’s mother didn’t really mind that her son wouldn’t be able to purchase one. After all, she wasn’t too thrilled about her son having a hedgehog as a pet in the first place. She said, “I thought, that’s my out. Now I don’t have to get him one. Then he said, ‘How do we make them legal?'”
From that point on, both King and his mother worked their tails off. The two spent three years conducting research and gathering pictures in order to fight the Lawrence law. Thankfully for King, commissioners finally agreed to let Judson speak at the city hall after a few months. The commissioners were unable to find a reason why such a law was in place and overturned the law.
King received his very own hedgehog for Christmas this year. Though, the fact that the commissioners couldn’t find a good reason why owning hedgehogs should be illegal makes one wonder why hedgehog ownership was against the law originally, doesn’t it? At least it can be said that, thanks to Sonic and King, anyone can now have their own hedgehog in Lawrence.
Rumor: LEGO to take over Rock Band
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TT Games recently finished work on their latest LEGO title, LEGO Batman. A LEGO Harry Potter video game has been rumored to be in development for a couple of months, though you may be surprised to hear what may be on the way instead. That’s right, Rock Band in LEGO form. A source told VG247 that Traveller’s Tales is busy at work on a Rock Band LEGO title for EA. Although the source states that the information is “100 percent correct,” it wouldn’t necessarily be wise to buy into this rumor immediately.
Platinum Games reveals new logo
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Platinum Games, who are working hard on highly anticipated titles such as MadWorld, have released a new logo to represent the company. The logo features characters from MadWorld, Bayonetta, and Infinite Space. Tatsuya Minami, President/CEO of Platinum Games wasn’t ready to explain the meaning of the logo though. That’ll come at a later date.
Nintendo’s year end Tokyo stock exchange ranking
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1. Toyota Motors: 10.160 trillion yen
2. NTT Docomo: 7.915 trillion yen
3. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group: 6.5109 trillion yen
4. Nintendo: 4.7813 trillion yen (US$52,732,987,757.80)
5. Tokyo Electric: 4.586 trillion yen
6. Takeda Pharmaceutical Company: 3.7823 trillion yen
7. Canon: 3.6945 trillion yen
8. Honda: 3.4971 trillion yen
9. JT: 2.95 trillion yen
10. KDDI: 2.8478 trillion yen
ChuChu Rocket trademarke re-registered by SEGA
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For those of you who don’t know, ChuChu Rocket originally released in the Dreamcast way back in 2000. Generally speaking, it was received well and was criticized mainly due to its online play.
Is SEGA thinking about bringing back ChuChu Rocket? SEGA USA renewed the trademark on December 22 of this year. SEGA has re-registered a number of other names for Dreamcast including Sonic Shuffle, Jet Grind Radio, and Cosmic Smash. This trademark could end up to being completely unrelated to Nintendo or even nothing at all. We hope the latter isn’t true.
5 video game stores ransacked in just 10 days
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It’s not so common to hear about a series of video game-related crimes that are executed in a short period of time. The Sacramento County area has been hit with five robberies at video game stores in ten days. Four of the five accounts have occurred at GameStop retailers.
Detectives have been piecing together the cases and believe the robberies may be related. At least two men have entered during the robberies and one man has been spotted with a shotgun. The robbers have been reported to be after money from both the store and customers.
You might think that – since the men have been robbing video game stores – the robbers might be interested in a few video game products as well. Oddly enough though, there have been no reports of actual video game merchandise being taken.
