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Grand Theft Auto is fingered for a role in riots
SCENES OF VIOLENCE in London this week might have been inspired by the video game Grand Theft Auto, according to a report in a local rag, the Evening Standard.
Someone was going to make the leap between the scenes of urban disruption and the game that sees you bash people with baseball bats, steal cars and sleep with prostitutes, but we would have had our money on it being the Daily Mail.
However, the Evening Standard, a free newspaper given out to Londoners, was first to make the leap between a game that hasn't been updated in about two years and a general desire amongst some bored, unemployed youth for a bit of incendiary mayhem and looting.
"Go home, get a takeaway and watch anything that happens on TV. These are bad people who did this. Kids out of control," a source is quoted as saying in the paper. "When I was young it was all Pac-Man and board games. Now they're playing Grand Theft Auto and want to live it for themselves."
This is not the first time that video games, indeed games by GTA publisher Rockstar, have won negative attention for the impact that they might have on individuals. Other games marketed by the firm include Bully and Manhunt, both of which sound like family friendly titles.
Still, in none of those games is the player expected to take on the role of a rabid pill popper, like our friend Mr Pac Man. µ
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do people buy newspapers any more?
i thought it was a dead industry due to their inane, meaningless content and overtly biased opinion
What ever happened to people being responsible for their actions?
Perhaps some people are too ignorant or uneducated to handle the responsibility of being a function human-being in today's society, but using games as a scapegoat is not the way to "solve" the problem...
Perhaps I'm just seeing this in "Black and White" but, if someone dose something illegal, they will go to jail, it's pretty simple.
Maybe we need to ban war, ya gota think it's more pervasive problem of society...
Seriously, it was not my intention to sleep with a prostitute. The game made me do it! Damn you GTA! Damn you AIDS! haha.. i kid.
Anyone else see the grand theft auto v official webpage? I typed in http://gtav.com and a website pops up now for GTA V. They had on there that the game will be released in 2012, and set in Los Angeles. I really hope they don't do LA for the game, I prefer something overseas so the game has a different feeling. Though if they did do LA it would be cool to have some rappers and cool actors in the game. Slap around a few of those bums!
And I've played Fallout, so naturally I am going to go out and start Word War III, and wander over the post-apocalyptic landscape killing everyone I meet.
Well, at least now I know that the London Evening Standard is a very low standard. Bloody gits.
There is only one thing that sells better than fame, infamy.
The editor is not stupid, it's just sensationalist titles because some idiots buy this crap.
The paper is not telling you what to think, it is selling you an opinion you are emotional about.
Anything they can get away with they will.
This is not a serious factual analysis of poor kids doing dumb shit. It was never meant to be.
Time to wise up people.
I don't recall the mission in GTA where you have to start a riot then loot and destroy random businesses and set fire to random buildings. So GTA didn't inspire the people in question to do it, they MIGHT have run around and done all sorts of crazy things in the game which they CHOSE to do, but the game didn't MAKE them do it, nor did it make them do it in real life.
The games industry getting a raw deal is really annoying me these days. It would be nice if it were discovered that media scare mongering were much more to blame for extreme behaviour than anything else
I know it was spending my youth playing Mousetrap that caused my obsession with torturing rodents...
Anyways, back to trying to rob TV's and burn shops in GTA, I obviously haven't got to that level yet.
Yes, because there was no such thing as violence or riots before Grand Theft Auto came out. Open your eyes people, there is no evidence that violence in people is influenced by video games.
So there we have it. Complete proof that GTA has sent the kiddies insane. Hmm although it seems to be localized in London maybe they got too play a different version of the game to the rest of the country some could have been sold in Liverpool which explains their participation. HA! What a load of rubbish I suppose you will be blaming this on the additives found in procesed cheese or maybe even God - Get lost for providing such a worthless piece of litter and make sure you bin it rather than throw throw it in the curb where it belongs - Gutter press at its worst - idiot