Legal Niches

Follow-Up on Autistic Boy's Xbox Live 'Cheater' Punishment

By james_fudge

As a follow-up to Thursday's story that an 11-year-old autistic boy (Julius Jackson) being banned from Xbox Live for cheating, Game Informer unravels exactly what might have happened and why Microsoft is not backing down from the action. Game Informer posits that the ban probably has something to do with Jackson's the way the youngster acquired the Recon Armor in Halo 3. Game Informer came to this conclusion based on tweets from both the mother (Jennifer Zdene) and Xbox Live Policy Director (Stephen Toulouse) Game Informer.

Getting Recon Armor is not an easy task. You can either have it given to you by Bungie directly (which did not happen in this case for sure) or "you can unlock a specific set of 7 achievements spread across Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST called 'Vidmaster Challenges.'" Some of those challenges are easy, while others are quite difficult. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 31, 2011 (boomark / email).