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• that's too bad :( : redfive
• Damn. :( : fechols
• Thanks for letting us know you, Billy Wilson! You're a swell guy! that seems a little cavelier... : GloriousCow
• wow, that sucks, I used to really like him..seems like everyone disliked him. didn't he have drug prob... : lakren
• That sucks... too young : Mondo
• *observes a moment of silence*... *punches Apache in the face on general principles* : RatBastard
• whaaaaaaat : mr.sleepy
• holy shit :(( : romulan
• didn't go to vextreme too much, but anyone dying so young is so sad :( : SolveChrist
• What the.... what happened? 33 years old? Gaaaarhrrhrhh. : five_percent
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  *tear* I liked VE before they sold out. Billy is hilarious. RIP Wicked : BobBarker
  • yeah, it was a great site in those days, and just went to hell overnight. I always hoped he'd get anothe... : mrtony
• RIP, Billy! I don't care to know the drama of his last years with VE, but he's still got to be recognize... : Luminair
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  Wait, is the page not updating for me, or did you get extra info elsewhere? While they say he's not expec... : zakk
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    Look at the bottom. : pyrogen
    • Ah I see. scrolling is hard. that sucks. : zakk
• That's fucked up, I loved that site like 5 or 6 years ago - 33? wtf? : abrasion
• Wow, that's crazy. VE used to be pretty funny. =/ : Ratsofatsorat
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  Wow, I used to email back and forth once in a while when he was at VE. He was a decent guy. That's so sad... : Fred Garvin
  • he was pretty good about that thing... still have a couple of messages from him in my inbox about stupid ... : mrtony
• I used to trade e-mail with him almost everyday back in the good old pre-sellout VE days... Billy was one : Dimmona
• RIP Wicked... : ZeroSignal
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  truly a gaming icon. i used to go to ve when i was in high school before they started going downhill. ... : esmokah
  • i had to make a video documentary in high school with my friend and the little voodoo guy made an appeara... : drgoozle
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  Don't worry, he WILL be back! : phobium
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    dude, not now : redfive
    • They don't have gaming news websites in heaven? :( : fechols
• Too many people dying. : archon
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  Man, this is such sad news. I wish I hadn't tossed out my VE shirt 4 months ago. : iamgoat
  • No kidding, really sad. : archon
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  I was a ve3d regular but I don't remember that name though. My condolences though. : thejm4n
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    you must have been a late-comer. that's like a shacker saying they don't know who Steve Gibson is. : mrtony
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      Steve who? : Fred Garvin
      • he directed that jesus movie : pigvomit
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      actually it's more like a shacker saying they don't know what shugashack is : Old_Fart
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        But do you remember Scarry's Quakeholio? : baron calamity
        • Do you remember when sTeve (actually it was sCary) came home drunk close to Halloween and tried to create... : victorrz
  • wow, him and Alex 'sharky' Ross are what made VE : moshman
• That sucks.... RIP : -TKF-
• That's sad, RIP billy : moz
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  damn. 33. damn. http://img182.exs.cx/img182/5417/sweetbilly7ki.jpg jAkUp posted this on the VE forum : hirez
  • He will be missed! :( RIP Billy! : slip42o
• WHAT? OH fuck :( That is terrible! I loved his old site, I was a VE fanatic when it started up with him ... : moshman
• holy crap . : CoRDS
• damn that sucks, voodoo extreme was where i started with gaming news back in the day . im gona frame m... : CoRDS
• damn....my condolences to his friends and family. : crypt420
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  I used to chat with him regularly back when I ran frag.com and he started VE. I'm sad to see him die so y... : armybob
  • you ran frag.com? I had a site hosted there.. part of the daily death halflife site : Morgin
  • Wow, I remember that domain. Can't for the life of me remember what was on it, but I remember the name :... : timmie
• This is so sad. I was hardcore Voodooextreme back in the the day. Anyone remember McBlink? :( : pap26
• RIP Billy. =( : Dslyecxi
• shit.......... :( : Optimus Prime
• Thats sad. We all gave him shit about GG too. VE was great back in the day..... : pigvomit
• Ooh that's messed up. I talked to him a lot over the years. : GeorgeB3DR
• That's a bummer. : Nixx2004
• Sadness. He used to pimp my articles when I was running PCFan.com. What a shame. : brickmatt
• Can't think what to say. Bye Billy :( : johnsto
• Poopy. I used to read VE back back in the ooooold days. Then it was replaced by Blues and Shack, but for ... : SpaecKow
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  As much as I made fun of GamingGroove and how annoying VE was (after he left, anyway), it always sucks wh... : timmie
  • Also, I'm really curious as to what happened. : timmie
• Sadness. I loved VE back in the day. RIP. : nomaad
• That's sad, it seems so strange to know that somebody who has basically been 'around' for so long in my a... : nukewinter
• ve was a daily stop for me years ago, Billy used to crack me up with his style of humor. He also did cool... : qwpeoriu
• :( ... think of all the midgets ? who will poke fun at them now ?... ve3d was my home for quite a while... : BigT
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  NOOOOOO! I left VE maybe 6 months ago after beeing there since day one. ;..( : ted1001
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    Didn't Billy leave about 6 years ago though? That place was my first internet hideout, long before the da... : moshman
    • I was thinking, "no way it could of been 6 years ago" but then it is 2005. Geez where has the time gone : baron calamity
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  First klerck, now Billy. Who's next? :( : PoopStewart
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    Klerck died? how? : humpx
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      He committed suicide. Put his suicide note up on his live journal blog. : baron calamity
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        That's legit? Or is everyone getting klerck'd again? : sevogajre
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          appears very legit, people in his home town, someone called his mom etc : moshman
          • jesus thats fucked up. I knew he was pretty eccentric but didn't think he was that far out there. That re... : humpx
• Quite a let down. Really I can't think of anyone who was doing the kind of comical reporting through link... : baron calamity
• :( i loved ve back in the old days. billy's news posts were always funny and original. : SlamDunk
• I'm I evil for lolling ? http://www.gaminggroove.com/blah.php?id=228 (top left) " "We all expres : Toraz Chryx
• That's quite a shock to me. I always got the impression that he was in top shape since he always talked a... : Mantle
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  :( I stopped reading VE when he left. : hanfeitzu
  • same ... damn so sad :( : cap n KRUNCH
• Holy shit! My condolences to the family, if it wasn't for him and VE3D, I would have never met the Shack.... : Mad Brahmin Disease
• :C condelences to his family. VE got me started with reading game news online very actively, simply becau... : moe6
• RIP Billy. VE was my favorite site back in the day, when he was the main guy there. : jabxvi
• Fuck, that sucks. I feel real sad for his kid. Condolences to the family. I to have followed Billy's work... : punchdog
• I had the pleasure of working with Billy closely on VE when I did webdesign for them. He was a stand u... : liqker
• Damn.. I used to read VE all the time back in the day, but stopped after Billy left. RIP.. : parker.ny
• :( RIP Billy, you and your family are in my prayers : handofthrawn
• Wow just wow... I loved going to VE3D back when he ran it, it was the best site out there at the time. R... : tunis5000
• people, seriously, stop dying. :( : pupismyname
• I'm sorry to hear that. I have fond memories of him from voodooextreme.com : Fredrik S
• wow RIP : anthonybean
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  Wow this sucks. VE was awesome back when Billy & Lowtax were running the show. I actually first cam... : darkdaze
  • Wow, I loved VE back in the day like in '99/2k', such great and fond memories...I remeber playing with hi... : mikage
• HOLY SH*T :( RIP : Nitrium
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  As the person who started VE with Billy, and was eventually stabbed in the back by him, I still have to s... : Tripps
  • Dave? : Matto357
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  terrible. :( what happened to him? : lonestar3
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    the first pic you get in google is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txkinney/images/Seminole/BillyWilson.jpg : lonestar3
    • Anyone have those old pictures of him drunk in the New Orleans cemetary? : Duss
    • Profile: http://www.gaminggroove.com/bio.php?id=2 Photo: http://www.caligirl.net/album/t-z/picture... : doomed
• I'll throw my .02 of recollection into the hat. Like many of the other who posted before me, Billy and VE... : -Panther-
• I hope he has a great afterlife, I feel like a douche that I didn't even know he existed until I heard ab... : Amnesty_intl
• :( a true icon : snagger
• Really sad. Didn't check VE too much in the past but always knew it was a great site. : shredder133
• thats really sad, I used to go there everyday when he ran ve3d, when he left it was never the same and I ... : uratrtl
• Has the story surrounding his death been released? I heard he was sick and in the hospital, but what are ... : BulletPro
• that sucks, VE was the first site I started visiting regularly when I first got the net : csana
• oh man... I have a certain fondness in my heart for irreverant gaming websites and the voodoo extreme was... : thebigbeefsandwhich
• Sorry to hear that. Voodoo Extreme rocked, I enjoyed his updates :( : physio
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  Goddammit, too many people on the internet scene are dying here. wth is going on? You know, as much a... : Rotten Deadite
  • too many people? : doomed
  • Who else? Can't remember... : Nitrium
• :((((((((((((((((((((((((((( : deviantpaul
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  that sucks :( I never understood how he got kicked off Voodoo Extreme even though it was his site. Tha... : sexninja!!!!
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    or is that not what happened :( : sexninja!!!!
    • iirc, the "money" guy fired him because he was slacking off wrt to posting and news and whatever. It was... : rasputinreborn
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  Hopefully there's miget porn on the other side. : Liquid
  • It wouldn't be heaven without it. : mikage
• I had some personal email conversations with Billy a few years ago when I was in a rough time in my life.... : themelon
• he's now in that great doublewide in the sky. Too bad, VE was my gaming website back in the day. I alwa... : rasputinreborn