Game that kills you

Lover of all things zombie. Secretly wishing for the apocalypse, but only on easy difficulty. Top of the world leaderboards for a couple of songs on Pro Drums on Rock Band 4. Can name every world flag. Currently doing my MA in Creative Writing in an attempt to do something with my life. Sony Dying in video games is just about as common as a week being seven days long. Callum James Lover of all things zombie.

Therefore, and bear in mind this isn't always the case, player deaths are used fairly sparingly, as hard resets like these act as a hefty deterrent to those actually holding the controller. Well, they just can't wait to kill you, and some of these games are so hopped up on their own hype that they will absolutely burst the player within the opening moments of the game!

Calm down lads, I've barely even registered what's going on! Now while it would be very easy for me to place any FromSoftware title into this entry seeing as pretty much every trolling title created by these devious devs is a masterclass in murdering the player as soon as they've begun, today we're going to look at Dark Souls 2 and it's opening sections which provide so many ways to die it's almost comical.

Before Zhu could respond, Qiu stabbed Zhu in the chest, hitting his heart and puncturing a lung. Zhu died immediately. Qiu was sentenced to death by the Shanghai Number 2 Intermediate People's Court, later commuted to life in prison. He is up for parole in The popular Facebook game Farmville became a focal point of a tragic case of homicide involving a troubled young mother and her three-month-old son. Alexandra Tobias, 21 at the time of the incident, was playing the social farming game when her son started crying.

Tobias confessed that to try and quiet the baby, she shook him at least three times. One of those times occurred while she was at the computer, playing Farmville , and she said she may have knocked the baby's head against the computer. After the baby became unresponsive, she called the father and then the paramedics. The baby was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and head trauma. The next day, the child was pronounced dead from "abusive head trauma. The trial revealed that Tobias had a tumultuous relationship with the baby's father.

At one point things got so intense that both were booked for domestic violence a few weeks before the incident. Tobias also had a traumatic past, having found her mother dead in Despite these circumstances, the judge gave her the maximum sentence allowed by her plea, 50 years. The Nintendo Wii was a hot item in , and many gamers were eager to get their hands on one. A radio station in Sacramento, Calif.

One contestant, Jennifer Strange, who was 28 and the mother of three, signed up and successfully drank the two gallons of water the contest rules specified.

While Strange participated in the contest, she complained to the hosts that she felt unwell, who mocked her and referenced the release she had signed, absolving them of responsibility. She placed second and received a pair of concert tickets, but no Wii. Jennifer Strange died later that night at her Rancho Cordova home of water intoxication.

The cycle of loot drops, grinds, and the social element of these games builds a compelling case to keep playing. Usually, this is no more than a matter of lost sleep before a workday.

Unfortunately, it can also have deadly consequences. In another room, her dehydrated and undernourished daughter, Brandi, starved to death. The girl's father, Bryan Wulf, had been away for nine days, although a later investigation revealed he was aware of his wife's inability to take care of their daughter. Christie and Wulf divorced after the child's death, and in Christie was convicted on charges of second-degree murder and child abandonment. In , Christie was sentenced to prison for 25 years.

The father pleaded guilty to child abuse and was sentenced to three years in prison. A mobile app that requires you to get up and move around seems like a great idea — until that app sends you directly into traffic, as it did Gabriel Cavalcante Carneiro Leao. While playing Ingress in , the year-old Brazilian teen lost track of his surroundings while rushing to a "portal" in the game, and was subsequently hit and killed by an oncoming bus.

Ingress has built-in limits to prevent certain unsafe behaviors, like features becoming unavailable while moving at high speeds. Unfortunately, there was nothing to stop an absorbed and enthusiastic kid from walking into a busy street. Sadly, Leao's death isn't the only one that can be tied back to the game.

Frank Maxwell, a year-old father, drowned near a pier in Ireland while playing the game in If you play a game like Ingress , you might be tempted to give it all of your attention.