Husbands MIA when gaming duties call
By Vince Horiuchi
The Salt Lake Tribune
Colby and Trina Lambourne have only been married a couple of months, and already he is having something of an affair.
The object of his fling isn’t another woman. It’s the new “Call of Duty: Black Ops” video game.
“I’ve wanted to break the game, throw it into the street and back my car over it,” said 22-year-old Trina Lambourne, a medical assistant from West Jordan. Her husband is a self-proclaimed “Call of Duty” junkie who will spend at least five to six hours every day playing the first-person shooter.
Activision’s billion-dollar-selling war game franchise is creating a subset of victims — known as “Call of Duty” widows — who have been suffering since “Black Ops” was released a month ago. Like the multiplayer role-playing games “Everquest” and “World of Warcraft,” the “Call of Duty” games are the crack du jour for the video-game addict.
