Video gamer threatens to blow up store

A video gamer promised to “blow up the store and shoot employees” after copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sold out, the Daily Mail reports.

Police in Colorado arrested a 31-year-old man who threatened to unleash his own warfare on a Best Buy store, after being told it had sold out of copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 when it went on sale at midnight on Tuesday.

Lomorin Sar allegedly threatened to blow up the Denver store and shoot all the employees in the parking lot when told he would not get a copy of the eighth Call of Duty instalment: Modern Warfare 3.

Ads for the Motorola Defy have been banned in the UK after the Advertising Standards Agency there declared that the rugged Android mobile is not as party-proof as its advertisements would have you believe, CNET reveals.

Two TV ads showed the Defy surviving being dropped on to the floor in a club, and doused at a sexy pool party. Onscreen accompanying text says it's "dance-floor-proof" and "pool-party-proof." More text reads: "Water-resistant, scratch-resistant, dust-proof. It's life-proof."

Those ads have been branded misleading, however, after three Defy users complained that the screens on their phones had cracked after dropping them.

Finnish phone maker Nokia has confirmed it is allowing only selected partners to sell its Lumia 800 smartphone.

Nokia has confirmed with The Inquirer that only Vodafone, Three, Orange and T-Mobile will sell the handset among mobile operators in UK. The only retailers to get Nokia's flagship Windows Phone 7.5 smartphone will be The Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U, which will sell it SIM-free, as well as on contract.

All other retailers, including big names like Amazon, will have to wait until next year to sell the device SIM-free. Online retailer Clove said its stock has been delayed until January 2012.

Police should be given the power to apply for Internet videos glamorising knife crime and gang culture to be removed, a Labour MP has said, Politics.co.uk reports.

Heidi Alexander's call for officers to be given the ability to apply to judges to get videos removed from video Web sites like YouTube has met with a muted response from the Home Office, however.

She argued in a Commons debate earlier this week that videos whose narrative is "mess with us and we'll stab you", which have been viewed tens of thousands of times, need tackling urgently.