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The Ace Attorney series consistently delivers funny, well-written stories, and Capcom’s latest game in the ever-expanding series, Ace Attorney Investiagtions: Miles Edgeworth, seems on route to follow in its predecessors’ footsteps. I recently finished playing through the first case in the Japanese release of Investigations, and while it tickles my nostalgia bone with plenty of nods to the previous Ace Attorney installments, it offers quite a bit new as well.

The game doesn’t change the basic “search for clues and talk to people” formula, but Capcom adds one very important thing that the last game in the series, Apollo Justice, was missing: a main character that you already know. Sure, the cameos in Apollo Justice were fun, but trying to extend the franchise by bringing in a new attorney isn’t as effective as Investigations’ exploration of the backstory of prosecutor Miles Edgeworth.

Gaming frustration has claimed another life, in Novosibirsk, Russia. An innocent two-player Counter-Strike game turned ugly when Alexei, aged 17, was brutally murdered by Alexander, his 14-year-old opponent.

The Novosibirsk Prosecutor’s Office website states that the two boys lads were playing Counter-Strike together at a local cyber café.

Alexander kept losing, and that’s when things got nasty…