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Kid Goes Missing, Dad Blames Xbox, Call Of Duty [News]
Kotaku — ... was "addicted" to Call of Duty, and the decision to confiscate his "Xbox" sparked the runaway. His father now fears the worst: My personal feeling is that he's met someone online through this game. As a parent, you fear the worst when you don't hear anything for seven days. Most runaway kids return home within 24 hours; Brandon's been missing for a week now, and hasn't been seen or heard from by friends or family. No leads yet in Barrie teen's disappearance [thestar, via GamePolitics ]

Missing Teen Leads To Misplaced Video Game Bashing
Techdirt — Teenagers have a long history of running away after getting into arguments with their family, but throw in the fact that the argument was over a video game and suddenly you've got a big press story in which the press can slam video games as being evil. As you may or may not be aware, there's a story up in Canada concerning 15-year-old Brandon Crisp who ran away from home after an argument with his parents concerning how much time he was spending playing video games. Rather than suggesting that it may have been the argument that drove him from home, his parents are ...