Details are still very sketchy on the murder of a 20-year-old British man, allegedly killed by someone he'd met on an
Advance Wars forum. The
BBC reports Matthew Pyke, who ran the forum, is suspected to have been stabbed to death at his home in Nottingham by a man currently in custody with German police. The 21-year-old suspect, whose name has been withheld by authorities, is currently in Frankfurt for an extradition hearing.
All the German police will say at this point is that the two men "got to know each other through the internet" on Pyke's
Advance Wars website.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in.]
{ Sep 26th 2008 at 1:30PM } 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Travis @ Sep 26th 2008 1:37PM
meeting people from the internet is cool
Shagittarius @ Sep 26th 2008 1:40PM
I can hear the sound of those 2 meeting on the internets:
fap-fap-fap-fAP-FAP-FAP
ronald.raygun @ Sep 26th 2008 1:43PM
isnt fap another name for masterbation?
Mr Khan @ Sep 26th 2008 1:45PM
Shaggi has a hearing problem. Everything to him sounds like fap-fap-fap
Translation for Shaggi:
Fap fap fap fap fap. fap fap fap fap fap-fap-fap
;)
Jakka(A tribute to whose who fought and failed during the Epic Flamewar of L.A. Noir) @ Sep 26th 2008 1:45PM
...you're a bit slow today, aren't ya :P
Jakka(A tribute to whose who fought and failed during the Epic Flamewar of L.A. Noir) @ Sep 26th 2008 1:50PM
Crap...who's the slow one now?
Translation to Shaggi:
Fap....Fa'p fap fap fap fap?
Duke @ Sep 26th 2008 1:38PM
Yup, the interwebs will kill us. Sad. I am curious what led to this.
ronald.raygun @ Sep 26th 2008 1:44PM
well i guess we know who won "that" war
Hot$auce_Magik @ Sep 26th 2008 3:14PM
ouch.
I Lol'd. +1
ToRo @ Sep 27th 2008 1:16AM
+1 for the Hayden Panettiere pic.
Kamizar @ Sep 26th 2008 1:45PM
Internet Stalking: Days of Stabbing...
Deets @ Sep 26th 2008 1:47PM
One of those "I DARE YOU TO SAY THAT TO MY FACE IRL! I KNOW KARATE AND WORK OUT EVERYDAY!" type moments that ended up actually happening I bet.
deaftly @ Sep 26th 2008 2:28PM
Dude, im totally going to kick your ass now just to see if we can get our own story. Total profit afterwards.
Residentevil72501 @ Sep 26th 2008 1:50PM
What Lead to this event?A dialogue of love and passion!
Hey Man So You Play Advanced Wars?
Yeah I run the forumn!
Wow dude that sorta sexy!
Man i know i think its pretty cool!
Hey wanna like get to know each other?
Yeah that sounds pretty Homo erotic!
Hey whats your Address i want to come STAB you!
Oh man your super kinky arent you :P I like taht in my men
What do you mean your men? I thought i was the only one!
Well no i run a forumn i have lots of men, i make a bet that if i beat them online they have to come see me for some anal gay fun!
:( oh well i see how it is......
zkey14 @ Sep 26th 2008 1:52PM
I can see you are well-versed in these matters.
Shagittarius @ Sep 26th 2008 1:52PM
Advance Wars: Days of Ruined Keyboards
Marty @ Sep 26th 2008 2:26PM
Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and say Shagittarius wins this reply section.
Levi @ Sep 26th 2008 4:22PM
@Shaggi: fap fap fap fap fap fap!
Translated for everyone else: Heh, I'm amused and disgusted at the same time!
dark_inchworm @ Sep 26th 2008 1:50PM
One reason I think a Joystiq reader convention would be a bad, bad idea.
Mr Khan @ Sep 26th 2008 1:56PM
I think it would be a bit scary, myself. People would meet me and find out that i'm actually not a pair of anthropomorphic kats that fly a superpowered fighter jet
Or find out that i'm not Wario, Coop, or NiGHTS
zkey14 @ Sep 26th 2008 1:58PM
Whoa, whoa, whoa. You mean you are not Wario IRL???
Dash @ Sep 26th 2008 2:02PM
But think of the fun it would be to see the likes of Killjebus and Fernando face to face, not fighting with words, but instead with bare fists. And of course, the Peaches doing, uh, whatever that is that people that use naked Peach avatar do.
And Mr. Esc (or his ghost) at the door, beging to get in (too bad he is banned, not a bad guy, not even sure what happened in the first place).
theturtle363 @ Sep 26th 2008 2:16PM
well if i was there they'd be pretty stupid to try anything illegal
Shmil (Mr ESC Liberation Front) @ Sep 26th 2008 2:56PM
people would look across the room and just think "who the fuck is that guy?"
dark_inchworm @ Sep 26th 2008 3:43PM
@theturtle363: Are you an underage girl?
(sweet)
Haggard (Mr.ESC resurrection force) @ Sep 26th 2008 7:54PM
Down with the ESC liberation front!
Up with the ESC resurrection force!
Blank-Mage @ Sep 28th 2008 1:22AM
I, for one, really am Blank-Mage. Which is to say, I don't know any magic, but I've got a sweet costume. Am I cosplaying right now? Maybe.
JoeTheBlow @ Sep 26th 2008 1:53PM
The Reg has more info on this.
Turns out a girl was involved, jealousy, online flirting, two-timing, threats, ect, ect.
Just your typical story of some web-ho driving 2 guys nuts, has absolutely NOTHING to do with the game.
angryemu @ Sep 26th 2008 1:58PM
So should I meet that guy I met on the cho.aniki.uk forums? He keeps talking about his "love knife." I think it's a ceremonial friendship dagger or something. Like from Inuyasha or something...
Blank-Mage @ Sep 28th 2008 1:26AM
Wait, did Inuyasha have a friendship dagger? Maybe that show is better than I give it credit for... I was probably too busy trying to erase Jaken from existence with sheer force of will.
MowDownJoe @ Sep 26th 2008 1:59PM
I expected an "INTERNETS. SERIOUS BUSINESS." in the first 10 posts. You disappointed me.
Park Zero @ Sep 26th 2008 2:03PM
This game should be banned. As well as the internet, and knives, and murder!!
In A World (XBL) @ Sep 26th 2008 2:38PM
I'm all for banning murder. [+1] for you, sir!
Matt M @ Sep 26th 2008 2:03PM
Even worse, I hear the killing was turn-based.
WRE @ Sep 26th 2008 2:14PM
...I guess we know who got to go first.
Intangible 360 @ Sep 26th 2008 2:29PM
The interweb really has no understanding of too soon.
DangerMouse @ Sep 26th 2008 2:52PM
The internet's an AI?
xGeneral DEATHx (Mr ESC Resurrection Force) @ Sep 26th 2008 3:43PM
The internets is watching...
juju187 @ Sep 26th 2008 2:06PM
advance wars is gangsta son...
John Z @ Sep 26th 2008 2:18PM
...
......
What the hell is wrong with some people?
Chin-Poh @ Sep 26th 2008 3:15PM
There are some double standards on Joystiq and really all over the internet. You'll see here some newsworthy deaths will generate a lot of jokes but for some, if even one little quip is made, the entire community is all over your sorry ass.
Travis @ Sep 26th 2008 3:03PM
quick! bring back Jack Thompson
playwhutyalike (trying to lure out Mr. ESC) @ Sep 26th 2008 3:06PM
Let's face it, humans suck. Some suck more than others, but EVERYBODY has some degree of suckitude.
I can't wait until the day that everybody I know including myself is dead and this shit doesn't matter anymore. Floating around without a care in the world at peace sounds pretty awesome to me, just hope I go quick and painless.
.
..
...
Sorry about that, just picked up the Force Feedback Wheel for GRID and been trying to calibrate it for the past hour. Guess it could be worse, I could hook up with one of you here on Joystiq and you can come over and kill me.
My thoughts and prayers go to his family.
Duke @ Sep 26th 2008 3:44PM
You are so emo man!
playwhutyalike (bring back Mr. ESC, please) @ Sep 26th 2008 3:57PM
So, um, Duke, where do you live? Wanna hang out? We can compare purple hair dyes, then go shop at Hot Topic. I think there is one in my mall here not sure.
Oh, bring some eyeliner, you can't have mine.
&rew @ Sep 26th 2008 4:13PM
Stephen Colbert has no suckitude.
Duke @ Sep 26th 2008 5:08PM
Too funny. +1
playwhutyalike (bring back Mr. ESC, please) @ Sep 27th 2008 5:01AM
Mr Colbert isn't human, he is a god amongst men.
Blank-Mage @ Sep 28th 2008 1:30AM
Hey, I like Hot Topic, and I'm not emo. They's got the Deathnote T-shirts, and I'm reasonably sure that is for the win.
playwhutyalike (bring back Mr. ESC, please) @ Sep 28th 2008 3:03AM
Alright, I bought my red Faygo t-shirt there for $10 three years ago. People who aren't in the know of delicious Faygo colas think it's some sort of "being a homosexual" reference. At least that is what the strangers I meet at the Rest Area at 2 in the morning think when I hook up with them for some good ol' fashioned, American gay sex.