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When Microsoft announced the shutdown of Xbox Live 1.0, Halo 2's community came together to give the game a final sendoff. Plans changed when players noticed they weren't being kicked offline at midnight, but nobody else could log in.

The 2009 Pokemon Platinum launch party gets hijacked by a rogue Mystery Gift signal, leaving online Pokemon fans searching for answers.

The exploits of one particular typosquatter involve thousands of URLS, millions of dollars, tons of lost legal cases and the passing of federal legislation.

In late 2016 a supposed epidemic of killer clowns sent the nation into a state of frenzied panic.

A mystery from 2004 involving the rumors of a computer-destroying virus, a NSFW search engine, and an infamous flash animation.

In 2007, a series of frightening rumors began spreading amongst the players of the Webkinz virtual world. Let's take a look at some of these rumors, as well as the response from the players, parents, and Webkinz developers.