{"id":62365,"date":"2014-03-05T12:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=62365"},"modified":"2014-03-05T15:25:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:25:32","slug":"dark-souls-blamed-for-cult-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/62365-dark-souls-blamed-for-cult-murders","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls blamed for satanic cult murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Fox News interview doing the internet rounds is blaming Dark Souls, in part, for cult murders.<\/p>\n<p>The interview in question shows Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. speaking about &#8220;Craigslist killer&#8221; Miranda Barbour\u2019s affinity for the \u201cvery dark, death-laden video game\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Barbour confessed to over 20 murders and being part of a Satanic cult, and the From Software game is listed as one of the contributing factors to her troubled life.<\/p>\n<p>MyGaming Forum members <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/36602-Alleged-Serial-killer-likes-Dark-Souls\" target=\"_blank\">posted the video last month<\/a><\/strong> where it was discussed, but it seems its popularity &#8211; or rather, infamy &#8211; is only starting to gain traction now.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a snippet of the interview.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SXIIc4rpcbU?rel=0\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Could video game violence be to blame, or is this just another dig at the industry by those who know little about it? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/erikkain\/2014\/03\/04\/fox-news-analyst-links-craigslist-killer-to-dark-souls\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/61721-dark-souls-2-sa-pre-order-price-roundup.html\">Dark Souls 2: SA pre-order price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62360-hilarious-battleblock-theater-coming-to-pc.html\">Hilarious BattleBlock Theater coming to PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62359-goat-simulator-is-no-april-fools-joke.html\">Goat Simulator is no April Fools\u2019 joke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/62355-uncharted-creative-director-packs-her-bags.html\">Uncharted creative director packs her bags<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video game violence comes under the spotlight, again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":62367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12075,1728,1935,3864,21],"class_list":["post-62365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cult-murder","tag-dark-souls","tag-from-software","tag-gaming-news","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62368,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62365\/revisions\/62368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}