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radioioRobert on 03 August 2008

Xbox Developer Dead in Murder-Suicide

Very sad news from Redmond, Wash. Melissa Batten, 36, a software development engineer in Microsoft's Xbox division, was murdered by her estranged husband, who then shot himself to death, earlier this week.

http://www.n4g.com/industrynews/NewsCom-178970.aspx?CT=1

What a terrible waste. Rest in peace. My thoughts are with the family.

She's listed as a development partner on Halo 3, and a Software Development Engineer in Test on Gears of War. Apparantly she worked on Banjo as well.... http://coin-op.tv/?p=401

It's creepy watching her present Banjo on video just a few weeks ago...

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obieslut on 03 August 2008

Her husband was a sony fanboy

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obieslut on 03 August 2008

its still a very sad story to here

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O-D-C on 03 August 2008

very sad RIP

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Pete_Beast on 03 August 2008

Wow, that sucks...

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pbroy on 03 August 2008

obieslut said:
Her husband was a sony fanboy

That's a pretty immature thing to say.

OT: I read about this earlier. It's a sad story.

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chasmatic12 on 03 August 2008

My condolences to her family. R.I.P Melissa.

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Riachu on 03 August 2008

R.I.P.

This is the problem with the real world. People are getting murdered all the time and their is nothing we can do to change that. What's also sad is that video games are the scapegoat for the violence.

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Obliterator1700 on 03 August 2008

Ouch...

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