No, the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer has nothing to do with video games

People have spotted a number of strange ties between CEO killer Luigi Mangione and video games, but they’re tenuous at best.

Chances are you’re already familiar with Luigi Mangione, the man arrested and charged with murdering Brian Thompson, the CEO of American health insurance company UnitedHealthcare.

Naturally, with his name and face being made public, internet sleuths have been keen to learn more about him, resulting in plenty of info widely circulating online.

Mangione has been connected to several prominent video games, but most of these are awfully slim ties and mostly just a strange series of coincidences.

The first connection is, unsurprisingly, his name. People were quick to crack jokes about Luigi from Nintendo’s Super Mario games, as well as reference Nintendo’s infamous Year of Luigi, an anniversary event meant to celebrate the character’s 20th anniversary but which coincided with a poor financial year for the company.

Word also quickly spread that Mangione’s name directly translates to ‘mansion’ in …