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November 8, 2010

Irony alert: First-person shooter video game stolen by first-person shooters

Fortunately, no one was shot.

But there's a touch of irony in the news that two handgun-wielding robbers stole more than 100 copies of the highly anticipated "Call of Duty: Black Ops" video game over the weekend.

The heist happened at a GameStop location at the Festival at Bel Air shopping center on Saturday night.

[Here's the full story at BaltimoreSun.com.]

Call of Duty is one of the biggest video game franchises around.

The new Black Ops game is valued at $49.99, which means the crooks who hit the Harford County store stole about $5,000 worth of the game. The game goes on sale tomorrow.

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Categories: *NEWS*, Gamers

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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