Here are today’s Nerd News! headlines:

GTA and Chill: A decade long study finds no connection between violence and gaming. A study called “Growing up with Grand Theft Auto” followed some gamers for a decade to discover how the game affected their behavior. Nothing seemed to change according to the study,  and there was no link between violent tendencies and video gaming… but that doesn’t mean people won’t continue to blame violent games.

Space Junkyard: A Harvard astronomer named Avi Loeb has come out with a book claiming that our solar system saw proof of intelligent life on other planets back in 2017.  Loeb says the evidence was some space junk from another civilization. Was it unknown technology or just a mug from the Hard Rock Cafe Neptune? We don’t know, but we do know that the junk was seen from a telescope in Hawaii.

Elves Working Overtime: The folks at Mircosoft are doing everything they can to get more Next Gen Xbox consoles on the shelves. The head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, says they are working to quote “ Pump out as many Xbox Series X and S consoles as they can”  … but despite all that effort you’re still going to have to wait until around April if you don’t want to get screwed by a scalper.