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This did happen, there was talk around the time of all realistic flight sims being banned.
This paricular game being withdrawn is a joke, but fantastic advertising if you can still get hold of a copy of it. I'd never heard of the game before the news story, but the next day I was looking through shops (other than Dixons) to try and find it. Couldn't though.
surely people must have been living under a rock to have not have
heh cool
Nah, they should go for Tom Clancy who described such an attack in one of his books...
Didn't do much for mine
No disrespect but they are idiots.
Yes, I used to imitate games too when I was little. The thing is, the games I played at that age were of people jumping on funny-looking monsters' heads to destroy them and princes rescuing princesses, not a guy with a chainsaw hunting innocents.
My point is, game ratings exist for a purpose. I don't agree with all of them, but sometimes you should pay attention to them.
As Zalbor said, the games have age ratings for a reason. Techically the murderer should have had no access to the game on his own. Someone must have bought it for him....
The Register
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Gamespot
I find this to be an interesting statement - the police had already announced that the game was not involved in the murder, but that "some sections of the media chose to ignore it.
i guess 'death by crazy boy' is not quite as catchy a headline.
Rockstar games must be laughing all the way to the bank, and who can blame them?