@ moonman0: I'm a parent of a 4, 5 & 7 yr old and it's not always a parenting issue. There are some things I can teach my kids right from wrong and kids will totally go against it, especially depending on the age. There is only so much a parent can do to discipline TRUST ME, I can't kill my kids (esp if I love them)! Sometimes you cannot control your children if they have mental issues already, this child sounds as if he had some issues mentally, but these things are not ALWAYS parental issues. You teach what you can and when they grow old enough to make their own decisions, you pray they make GOOD decisions. I think this child needed help long before this incident occurred. The parents could have grounded him already, he could have been on medication for behavioral problems, etc. etc. We don't know ANYTHING about the child, nor the family, nor the living conditions, nor the daily routines so we can't make judgments on the parents alone.

This seems like a parenting issue to me, if the child wasn't raised to be able to accept losing in a video game or losing thier turn in a video game then the child should not be allowed anywhere near a video game, video game console, or computer until they learn to accept thier losses in a GAME.

"It was a house rule whenever the kids were playing a video game: Lose the match, lose the joystick, according to authorities."

Play to Win edumacation.

evanofam: if this was a game like Cars or Sesame Street, then we will never hear about it from CNN etc. because that would not get the public reaction they desire. The ONLY way we will hear about this is if it reinforces the stereotypes about videogames and gamers that they have been creating - ie it needs to be violent enough that the people at large would be likely to jump onto the bandwagon and think the videogame sparked it.

People don't want to hear that there is a problem with parenting, or that some kids have mental/emotional issues that must not be ignored. They would rather blame the videogame, and then feel ok and fine letting the TV continue to raise their own kids. This might not be everyone, but right now, it is a majority. People like scapegoats, and generally run from real problems that they might be a part of - unfortunate but true.

3-1 odds that CNN will host this story, and 2-1 odds that a senator will try another game ban or some such r-tard legislation.

1-1 odds that Jack Thompson will appeal his law ban (if he isnt back already) and he will offer his services or fight on his own against the game.

I PRAY its a child friendly game like Cars or Sesame Street or some shit. I'd like to the media f*ck with that.

And as everyone already stated, issues like this arise not from the game, but from either : improper parenting (lets hope not), messed-in-the-head kids, or simply young children who havent quite learned 'sharing = goodness and peace and love in the world'.

It also helps (like in my situation) when your sibling either doesnt like video games or they have their own system. I mean, honestly, is it not CHEAPER to buy 2 ps2's and 2 games, then lose one of your children? I'd pay it, certainly (if it was socially acceptable for me to have kids at my age :D or if i was a parent with two kids).

I should be shocked/disgusted but this seems to happen every other week.

1st of all, it was the younger brother vs. the older one. Having two brothers myself: there's always some kind of struggle of the younger one to somehow be on par with the stronger older brother. This always should be considered by parents: equal treatment and guidance that the weaker part doesn't get frustrated by the 'power of the elder'.

This frustration was probably the case, and I think it was enforced by this:
"It was a house rule whenever the kids were playing a video game: Lose the match, lose the joystick, according to authorities."

This rule enhances the superiority of the older brother over his younger brother. I assume the older one was a lot more 'skilled' in playing the game than his younger brother. Which probably resulted in the 13-yr old playing for 10 minutes, followed by the elder one playing for an hour.

Combine that with the strong developed feel for justice and injustice of children and the sense that there are rules that you don't support but that you are to stick to...

(off-topic: this is why I dislike hierarchy / uncontrolled authorities and greatly prefer consensual rules...)

It is an awful deed, I am far away from defending the younger kid because the actions that evolved from his frustration are way off the mark.

Still, this was no "a game I wanna so deeply play that I would kill for"-kill. I guess it was a murder out of frustration over inferior power and unjust rules / authorities.

I have to agree with all you guys, there is definitely something missing from that story in their background history.

- Game controllers don't kill people, guns do!

That is sad a child would do that to their brother. I do agree something else must be going on if such a thing happened. A game can not be just to blame. What would they say if it happened over some other toy?

I can agree that we have played violence down as a culture...but you have some issues if you cant tell a videogame from reality...its NOT the games fault...the kid has some issues.

That is partly true, they must have obviously not gotten along very well, but I can see how one could become so angered of a video game being played with someone such as your brother.

Anytime something like this happens, the problem(s) existed FAR before videogames ever became involved in the matter.