If there was a thread started for every celebrity who likes video games or used to like video games, you'd actually have to create a whole new subforum to hold them all.
Really, who cares?
Anyone who read "old" Nintendo Power knows various cast members of The Wonder Years, Growing Pains, Married with Children and Seaquest were big into video games. So what?
This is why I don't camp out on places like Joystiq.com (the apparent source for this piece) or Kotaku.com all morning hitting "Refresh" every 90 seconds waiting to see a big story before anybody else like a ton of other people on the internet.
Cuz you gotta sift through mountains of crap articles like this to get something relevant.
And Bale's behavior wasn't really any worse than stories that have circulated over the years about people like Russell Crowe, Val Kilmer, Jean Claude Van Damne, Shannen Doherty, Tom Cruise and a score of others whose names escape me at the moment.
Unlike Bale, those people (minus Cruise perhaps) generally had the luxury of seeing their greatest acting successes during the non or pre-YouTube era. So a lot of their "stuff" isn't documented on the internet.