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Xbox Developer Dead in Murder-Suicide

Very sad news from Redmond, Wash. Melissa Batten, 36, a software development engineer in Microsoft's Xbox division, was murdered by her estranged husband, who then shot himself to death, earlier this week.
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Xbox developer killed by hu... - destructoid.com | By: Shmammy
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Published: 510 days 15 hours ago | News | Xbox 360 | Industry News
 
 

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1 cloudman | 510 days 15 hours ago - comment has been reported as offensive -
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Captain Tuttle - 510 days 15 hours ago
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It proves you have no class.
1.2 cloudman | 510 days 15 hours ago - comment has been reported as offensive -
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Jenzo - 510 days 15 hours ago
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They should ban you for that.
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Wildarmsjecht - 510 days 15 hours ago
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No, you have no class cloud.

Fanboy console wars are all good and fun for w/e reason, but a life lost is a life lost. Show some respect and realize this has nothing to do with 360/wii/ps3, but rather with the fact that someone was murdered and the person who did it, took his own life instead of being caught, trialed, and placed in jail. It's a horrible situation to say the least.

My condolences to her family and friends.
1.5 cloudman | 510 days 15 hours ago - comment has been reported as offensive -
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nirwanda - 510 days 15 hours ago
1.6 - @cloudman
'Everytime i watch the news somone has to die!!!!!!!!!!'

and one day someone you love will die and maybe then you will learn greater sincerity to others.

the first and only comment I have every reported doesn't even belong in the open zone.
1.7 Agent VX | 510 days 15 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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callahan09 - 510 days 15 hours ago
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Shame
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Superfragilistic - 510 days 15 hours ago
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Cloudman you're a sick and pathetic individual. If anybody sold their souls, it's clearly yourself and LightningPS3 who have no respect for the dead and the families they've left behind.

There's no place for this sh!t on N4G, and quite frankly, anywhere else.

Welcome to my ignore list, lose your bubbles and watch the clock tick until you are banned.
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1.12 TheMART at Xboxkings | 510 days 14 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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predator - 510 days 15 hours ago
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my heart goes out for her family
2.1 LightningPS3 | 510 days 15 hours ago - comment has been reported as offensive -
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Genesis5 - 510 days 14 hours ago
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A very tragic and sad event. My most sincerest and heart felt sympathies to her family.
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MrSwede - 510 days 14 hours ago
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Can't believe someone actually disagreed with you, predator.

My condolences to the family.
2.4 sumfood4u | 510 days 14 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Mr BlueScreen - 510 days 13 hours ago
2.5 - To all the igonorant Fanboys
It is a said day in the gaming world when a developer is killed or gone in some why. No madder if they are a Xbox developer, Xbox fan, PlayStation developer or PlayStation fan, they are still human and still a person. When a person is killed or murdered they should be honored no matter if they are good or bad because the fact is they developed games for you to enjoy nothing more nothing less.

I feel really bad for his and her family.
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juuken - 510 days 13 hours ago
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My heart goes out as well.

And cloud...whatever you said up there...I'm sure it was not only stupid but pathetic. I may support Sony and the PS3 but at least I can recognize when a life is lost. Regardless of where this woman worked, she is a human being and didn't deserve something like this happening to her. I hope your account gets banned, along with LightningPS3. If you guys are going to be insensitive pricks, then at least have the decency to stay out of the thread.

I pray that God may heal her family and give them the health and strength to keep strong in the time of tragedy.
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solidt12 - 510 days 13 hours ago
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Very tragic. It seems like everyday i turn on the news there is a sad story like this. If its that bad that you are thinking about killing some one. Please leave the relationship.
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Pr3-M3d_G4M3R - 510 days 13 hours ago
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It's so unfortunate with murder-suicide. It is never the other way around where the murderer takes his/her own life before taking an innocent victim, I hate it. People dont understand or respect the complexity and fragility of the human body and mind, this man should have searched for help. Everyone only has one life and to have it stolen by someone else is the ultimate waste. IF anyone ever feels depressed or hopeless, please seek help there is always a way to help with medicine or other and there is always someone to listen just put the effort to find that person..

To those idiots who are saying pathetic fanboy sh!t just to stir up some heat, STFU!!!! And remember than any tragedy like this can happen to anyone. If it were to happen to you or someone you know you would feel different. People have no idea of sympathy and empathy
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iamtehpwn - 510 days 12 hours ago
2.9 - We already have very few Women in the industry
For one die like this is simply tragic.
Poor woman, I feel for her and her family.
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Hagaf22 - 510 days 12 hours ago
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a sad loss to the industry, may she rest in peace.
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NegativeCreep427 - 510 days 11 hours ago
2.11 - VERY unfortunate act.
It is just sad that some A-hole like this woman's ex-husband (which of course I assume she was soon going to divorce him) was psycotic enough to go and kill this woman and then take the coward's way out by killing himself.

I know some people here don't show ANY kind of regard or respect for people like her who are brutally murdered for petty reasons (I couldn't read the first comment because it was deleted by the time I got to it, but by the responses it seems like it was pretty heartless), but it surprises me in the way that they at least don't think of this act like if it was their mother, or their sister, or even one of their friends.

Anyways, she was killed unfortunately by some chicken s**t A-hole, and best regards and god bless to her family and friends.
2.12 Megatron08 | 510 days 10 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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ape007 - 510 days 10 hours ago
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you see guys now that fanboyism is a desaes and they should get medication needed,I can't believe how thes fanbys react to a tragedy this way

they should't deserve to only get banned from n4g they deserve to die

these guys with these brains can damage the society(am not kidding)

a massage to all fanboys:get a life

I wouldn't believe anyday that fanboyism will reach this level

do you guys worship that piece of plastic

JUST TELL ME !!!!
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prunchess - 510 days 9 hours ago
2.14 - Very sad.....
A young and beautiful woman. What a waste. May she rest in piece.
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iamtehpwn - 510 days 7 hours ago
2.15 - Why did I get disagrees?
Seriously...o.O Whoever disagreed with me for feeling bad for someone who died, you are sick.
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Pr3-M3d_G4M3R - 510 days 3 hours ago
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People disagree with you because they are idiots. Dont worry I agree with what you said and I gave you bubbles for speaking the truth
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yesah - 510 days 1 hour ago
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her husband was a coward. Couldnt he have gone out of this world without killng someone in the process? hope he rots in hell. This is an sad day, i truly feel sorry for her and her family, may they find peace in the comfort of time.
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ape007 - 510 days ago
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I feel you man

thank you for your comment

anyone disagrees with you has no life.no love,no religion,no respect,just like animals( oh my,sorry sorry animal are much,much better than them animals have heart,soul,feelings),they just live for doing stupid things,let me tell you lifeless human beings,you absolutely have no life

and again thank you

+bubbles

keep commenting more

we want more people like you my friend to end this disease.

and if you don't like it fanboys GO TO HELL
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skagrerrrr - 509 days 22 hours ago
2.19 - RIP Melissa
Rest in peace
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BLuKhaos - 509 days 21 hours ago
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may she rest in peace.
3 LightningPS3 | 510 days 15 hours ago - comment has been reported as offensive -
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harry190 - 510 days 15 hours ago
3.1 - What you are saying is very
offensive and ridiculous.
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leeger - 510 days 15 hours ago
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what the, someone just got murdered and you still bring up fanboyism? geez! and I thought 360 fans are the worse.
3.3 cloudman | 510 days 15 hours ago - comment has been reported as off topic -
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Wildarmsjecht - 510 days 15 hours ago
3.4 - Leeger
Don't worry. There are people like this all over the world who try and find some sort of hilarity or apathetic-ness regarding these kinds of situations. There would in fact be Xbox people if it were a situation relating to Sony and the PS3. Don't even mind him or label him a fanboy. Just...something.
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Skerj - 510 days 15 hours ago
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He's not, check his past comments to see how he flip flops back and forth. Besides this has jackshit to do with a war between two inanimate objects. Condolences to the family, I just hope the media doesn't use this as another crusade since they both happened to be game developers.
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Cupid_Viper_3 - 510 days 15 hours ago
3.7 - yo man... that's not F*cking cool at all..
you should really stay off the internet man. or maybe you're just to young to understand that in real life there's no RESPAWN. somebody's life was taken, and all you have to say is that she was an XBOX person??? what happened to " if you dont have anything nice to say, then keep that hole below nostrils SHUT?" anyways, time will teach you a few lessons my friend.

but on a more important note. My heart goes out to her family and friends. And i am hoping that she had no kids, because that would be too much for them to deal with.

GAMING, has lost a friend, and if you're not a gamer, please dont comment here......
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Superfragilistic - 510 days 15 hours ago
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LightningPS3 you're as bad as Cloud. Welcome to my ignore list, lose a bubble and learn to have some respect in that evil, cold blood of yours! Get a life.
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No FanS Land - 510 days 15 hours ago
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With that comment "she was an XBOX person" "I am a Playstation person", are you saying you're so fanboy addicted that even these kind of news should not affect you? WHO THE F*CK are you? you hope to carry on that silly video game war over the real world or what? By the way your avatar is a multiplatform game.
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Silogon - 510 days 15 hours ago
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What an incredible situation and what an ominous video looking back in retrospect. She was alive and, seemingly, well, although seemed troubled in the video too. I can never fathom how someone could hate someone so bad, so much, that they could take a life over it.

More over, a life of the person they supposedly loved.

This is sad, but no sadder than the tragedies thousands/millions face daily in this world and we simply don't have enough time to mourn for them all or we would.

Well, those of us more compassionate.

I'm sorry to hear this news.
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Genesis5 - 510 days 14 hours ago
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Very eloquent Siligon. Fun and games in the battle of consoles is one thing we can agree to disagree on. But senseless tragedy should not be made light of.
5 LightningPS3 | 510 days 15 hours ago - comment has been reported as offensive -
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Jenzo - 510 days 15 hours ago
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You should get some help. And get banned.
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