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Rant: Stop blaming, banning videogames for real-world violence

by Jonathan Gronli on Aug 8, 2008 at 10:09 AM

Grand Theft Auto IV was recently removed from store shelves in Thailand by the order of New Era Interactive, one of Asia’s largest game distributors. The reason is that Polwat Chino, a 19-year-old boy, killed a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the game. Ah. Yet another… Continue Reading »

MSNBC writer denounces games as media’s main scapegoat

by Richard Snyder on Feb 22, 2008 at 04:04 PM

Back on Monday (February 18, 2008), MSNBC published an article by writer Winda Benedetti criticizing infamous Miami lawyer Jack Thompson’s far too well-known crusade against videogames. Benedetti even went so far as to suggest that certain games can actually be thought-provoking enough to warn against the dangers of such things… Continue Reading »

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