JeuxVideo writes:
"A 13-year-old boy was arrested Saturday morning at Lyon, when he put the fire to his 3rd car. Heard by police, he explained that he imitated the video game Grand Theft Auto 4, released last spring, sold millions of copies, and where the player must commit a maximum of illegal acts. "He first set fire to 2 cars parked in his neighborhood, which completely burned, and was surprised when he set fire to a 3rd. During his hearing, he said it was like in GTA "
In this week's Muse Culture Podcast, Patrick, Kon, Martyn, Terry and James talk about the new release of Amnesia, build up for GTA V and Eurogamer.
Patches galore this week with talk about the new Hawken patch and update 5.4 for World of WarCraft. Also they discuss films and the new PS Vita/ Vita TV from Sony.
For a long time moral crusaders expressed horror at various movies. They decried the violence and sex and questioned the impact it might have on impressionable youth. Nowadays it seems the videogames industry is top of their hit list. While violence has always been prevalent in games, sex and nudity has been relatively rare. Whenever it does pop up there are scores of ignorant detractors trying to drum up support for censorship. It is only relatively recently that developers have been able to include nudity and sex that bears any relation to the real thing in their games but it is still incredibly tame when compared to TV or movie sex. Why the outrage?
Say what you will of Jack Thompson, he always pays his bills. And he sure will do his damndest to let you know about it, too.
Because even Jack Thompson knows that the only game version ever worth getting is 360.
Yes, let's blame GTA4 rather than the massive failure of the parental figures involved (parents, teachers etc) and the society as a whole.
I suppose they should be happy he wasn't inspired by something like Gears of War, and started chainsawing people...
Tie him to some train tracks and blame it on Snidely Whiplash.
Crazy French people.
here goes another one.