Click to viewIt started as a warfare between the two fictional land of Orange Star and Blue Moon . Over time , it became a favorable multiplayer net plot , with armies of various colors fighting for supremacy in a Nintendo - based world . And last calendar week , the fictional warfare cross over into realism when 20 - year - old gamer Matthew Pyke was found dead in his Nottingham flat . Clearly , someone is taking Nintendo ’s Advance state of war too seriously . Pyke run an Advance Wars scheme website with his lady friend , Joanna Witton . He wrote fanfiction , post to forums , and looked forward to start a course at Nottingham Trent University . Last Friday , Witton notice his body , knife to death in their dwelling ; there was no signal of force entry .
The Times of London reports that the Advance Wars website is at the middle of the search for Pyke ’s manslayer :
Detectives are investigate if another fan of the game may have fallen out with Mr Pyke in internet and then taken uttermost retaliation in real biography … One anon. poster on the site meeting place suggested that other phallus may have have it off who was behind the putting to death . “ We may sleep together a lot of what was going on prior to the killing , but I , for one , am not going to say any more , ” he say .
But await – it gets creepier . Another assembly participant , a German gamer discover David Heiss , contact Witton just days after the calamity .
At 10.32pm on Tuesday Mr Heiss , from Limburg an der Lahn , near Frankfurt am independent , posted a message on Ms Witton ’s Facebook Sir Frederick Handley Page . “ I will pray for you . You must be ache incredible pain , ” he write . “ I ’m sorry for having caused so much trouble latterly . I trust you wo n’t lose all your hope . We will be there for you . ”
The message ’s fishy shade was not lost on many . Nottinghamshire law have confirmed the arrest of a German suspect who fits Heiss ’s description . If he is indeed the killer whale , I go for they take him how the nether region he could be so far removed from reality that he have out a play grudge by committing murder . Images fromSpongandWikipedia . Gamer arrested over calculator link to knife murder of Matthew Pyke[Times Online ] andMan Arrested Over Advance Wars Forum Murder[Kotaku ]
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