Video game violence has always been an iffy issue in society. Case in point, a 17-year old teen from Beijing got into an argument with a classmate and ended up turning into a real-life Fire Mage after playing Blizzard's World of Warcraft as he ended up dumping a water bottle full of gasoline on his victim and lit him up.

The perpetrator was sentenced to 8 years in jail, with an accomplice receiving 7 years. The families of both the perpetrator and the accomplice was required to pay 760,000 Chinese yuan in restitution to the victim.

World of Warcraft is distributed in China by The9 and offer a means of escape for tens of millions of Chinese playing this MMORPG. Thankfully, no further legal red tape was extended past the sentence and restitution was isolated within the payment of the victim's family.

However, this serves a harsh lesson for those who push the line by crossing the virtual with reality. So remember, kids. Just keep everything clean and inside the game while have some good clean fun playing WoW.