o.O WTH? He slashed his friend's throat over an argument on XBL? He should definately see a therapist....

typical. If you do something like that after losing a game you have some serious issues. That's like saying we shouldn't have relationships because certain people kill themselves when they break up or kill the next boy/girlfriend. It's a sad story but these people are obviously messed up in the head if they're willing to do this considering 99.99999% of players don't do this when they lose.

I blame games for making him a father at such a young age, too.

O great....The us government will try to take away our knives now!

HANG on its like almost 4am here

Am I reading this right, a 13 year old who is a father?

This is GB, what do you expect? I think a case of another 12 or 13 yo father was all  over the news 1-2 years ago^^

Wait, he's 13 and he's a father?

That's so messed up.

His upbringing and his social contacts seem to have much much more to do with what happened than any video game, although personally I think that the portrayal of violence is pretty sickening in Gears and that children really shouldn't have access to this kind of content.

*shrugs* opening cans with a knife isn't ideal anyway

Scotland. Read the article *facepalm*.

Is Scotland not part of Great Britain?