What games did Lanza play

i know he played under smiggles but what game was it, does anyone know if he had friends he played with a lot on xbox/pc

did he play steam a lot like Sonboly

He played Dance Dance Revolution a lot. That's the only one I know for sure he played; there were allegation he played games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft frequently, but I do not know if this was confirmed or not.

A few that were found in his home were Left 4 Dead, Doom, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Paper Mario.

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A few that were found in his home were Left 4 Dead, Doom, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Paper Mario.

yeah did he play online with anyone?

This is an article about Adam's Steam account. It's set to private so you can't see any information from the profile but the article discusses why it was likely that this was his account.
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This article talks about Xbox. His account for that console has probably never been located.
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He played WoW with the name blarvink but I have never of heard anyone coming forward with information about playing that game with him, although it is probably one of the games that he spent the most time playing.

He also belonged to a Combat Arms clan. There are some posts from the forum which were archived after the site shut down.
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Here's a thread which discusses many of the games that Lanza owned/played.
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It seems that most of his intense gaming activity took place 2010 or earlier. In the above thread, I quoted a post he made on December 14, 2011 where he said that he barely played any video games. I think it's possible that he mostly left that behind once he became obsessive about mass murder.

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A few that were found in his home were Left 4 Dead, Doom, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Paper Mario.

GTA 5 came out in 2013. He had gta 4 which i imagine he didnt play much as he usually played combat arms or ddr. the media says shooters play whichever games they hate pretty much

He liked to play Dance Dance Revolution and there's a video of him, too. Games like Call of Duty (3 & 4), Gears of War, Left 4 Dead and GTA IV were found in his room.

He tried Skyrim since everone said it was awesome but he didn't like it.

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He played Dance Dance Revolution a lot. That's the only one I know for sure he played; there were allegation he played games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft frequently, but I do not know if this was confirmed or not.

COD is confirmed, I remember seeing the box for the game in the police photos.

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He played WoW with the name blarvink but I have never of heard anyone coming forward with information about playing that game with him, although it is probably one of the games that he spent the most time playing.

Knowing who he was and what sort of a person he was, I'm not surprised. Its possible he played it solo or just joined random people camping at places for single missions etc. They wouldn't remember him in that case.

Do you remember all the nicknames of all the people that joined you for one random mission/raid/dungeon in any mmorpg you played?

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He played WoW with the name blarvink but I have never of heard anyone coming forward with information about playing that game with him, although it is probably one of the games that he spent the most time playing.

Knowing who he was and what sort of a person he was, I'm not surprised. Its possible he played it solo or just joined random people camping at places for single missions etc. They wouldn't remember him in that case.

Do you remember all the nicknames of all the people that joined you for one random mission/raid/dungeon in any mmorpg you played?

I have never played any MMORPG.

He said that he spent a lot of time using WoW as a setting for roleplaying instead of playing the actual game. He mentioned playing for a couple hundred hours with a single character without making progress because he used it almost exclusively for that purpose.

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That is why I made that comment. I've never roleplayed but I would assume that while it would be common to find random people to RP with at times, the ideal situation would be to find a regular partner so that you can create longer stories, continuing dynamics between characters and not have to set up your rules or share your background every time you want to start a story. I have very little doubt that Adam had regular RP partners over the years rather than solely being involved in one-off interactions with strangers and it's even possible that he shared contact info with some of them. As for why no one spoke up, I would guess that they wouldn't want to be bothered, wouldn't have realized who he was after the fact, forgot about it or wouldn't want to acknowledge that it might be true but I am sure that they are out there. He  stated that he had dozens of characters so who knows what unrecognizable names he might have used. Without confirmation, it would be easy to say that someone you used to play with was probably someone else even if it was him.

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QuestionMark wrote:

He played Dance Dance Revolution a lot. That's the only one I know for sure he played; there were allegation he played games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft frequently, but I do not know if this was confirmed or not.

COD is confirmed, I remember seeing the box for the game in the police photos.

Just cause it was there doesn't mean he played it.

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QuestionMark wrote:

He played Dance Dance Revolution a lot. That's the only one I know for sure he played; there were allegation he played games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft frequently, but I do not know if this was confirmed or not.

COD is confirmed, I remember seeing the box for the game in the police photos.

Just cause it was there doesn't mean he played it.

I think its safe to assume that if one has an xbox game, he played it at least once. Doesn't mean he did it regularly, maybe he didn't like it, but in that case why did he own several games in the CoD franchise?

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QuestionMark wrote:

He played Dance Dance Revolution a lot. That's the only one I know for sure he played; there were allegation he played games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft frequently, but I do not know if this was confirmed or not.

COD is confirmed, I remember seeing the box for the game in the police photos.

Just cause it was there doesn't mean he played it.

I think its safe to assume that if one has an xbox game, he played it at least once. Doesn't mean he did it regularly, maybe he didn't like it, but in that case why did he own several games in the CoD franchise?

Yes, and if it is not his game, whose game is it? Nobody else came in the house except his mother, and I seriously doubt it is hers.

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QuestionMark wrote:

He played Dance Dance Revolution a lot. That's the only one I know for sure he played; there were allegation he played games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft frequently, but I do not know if this was confirmed or not.

COD is confirmed, I remember seeing the box for the game in the police photos.

Just cause it was there doesn't mean he played it.

I think its safe to assume that if one has an xbox game, he played it at least once. Doesn't mean he did it regularly, maybe he didn't like it, but in that case why did he own several games in the CoD franchise?

Yes, and if it is not his game, whose game is it? Nobody else came in the house except his mother, and I seriously doubt it is hers.

Could be Ryan's game.

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QuestionMark wrote:

He played Dance Dance Revolution a lot. That's the only one I know for sure he played; there were allegation he played games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft frequently, but I do not know if this was confirmed or not.

COD is confirmed, I remember seeing the box for the game in the police photos.

Just cause it was there doesn't mean he played it.

I think its safe to assume that if one has an xbox game, he played it at least once. Doesn't mean he did it regularly, maybe he didn't like it, but in that case why did he own several games in the CoD franchise?

Yes, and if it is not his game, whose game is it? Nobody else came in the house except his mother, and I seriously doubt it is hers.

Could be Ryan's game.

I thought Ryan left quite some time before CoD:BO came out

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QuestionMark wrote:

He played Dance Dance Revolution a lot. That's the only one I know for sure he played; there were allegation he played games like Call of Duty: Black Ops and World of Warcraft frequently, but I do not know if this was confirmed or not.

COD is confirmed, I remember seeing the box for the game in the police photos.

Just cause it was there doesn't mean he played it.

I think its safe to assume that if one has an xbox game, he played it at least once. Doesn't mean he did it regularly, maybe he didn't like it, but in that case why did he own several games in the CoD franchise?

Yes, and if it is not his game, whose game is it? Nobody else came in the house except his mother, and I seriously doubt it is hers.

Could be Ryan's game.

I thought Ryan left quite some time before CoD:BO came out

Ah, my mistake then.