August 5th, 2008
Xbox Developer Dead in Murder-Suicide
by Candid Anthony
Very sad news from Redmond, Wash. Melissa Batten, 36, a software development engineer in Microsoft’s Xbox division, was murdered by her estranged husband, who then shot himself to death, earlier this week. Batten, a Harvard-educated lawyer, was a Software Development Engineer in Test for Microsoft, supporting Rare on its 360 titles work. She had worked for Microsoft since 2002, earning credits in Halo 3 and Gears of War as an SDET. Kotaku
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I read this the other day and saw the comments at N4G and I was quiet ashamed with the comments…It had some bad ones…but RIP Melissa Batten… :’(
People are sick. The users on N4g said horrible things, like that oh well she was an MS developer. This beautiful young girl was at E3 last month and we prolly ran into her or saw her. RIP.
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