Here we go again

[Zorin Industries]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicest...ire/3659120.stm

 

We'll see how this turns out, but the U.K. is quite a pro-censorship country, so it could turn out quite bad for the gaming community

[dubq]

Oh, for fuck's sake, these wankers need to get the fuck over it and stop blaming a frigging video game.

 

This is one incident.

 

One.

 

Last I checked, the game isn't making millions go out and kill, kill, KILL! Obviously this guy is mentally-fucking-unstable.

 

Hooray for scapegoating!

[Zorin Industries]

Unfortunatly, thats the U.K. for you. You can go back and look at the video nasties scare of the early 80's when a shedload of horror movies were banned, for prior instances of this type of thing. People always go for the easy answers, plus the tabloids jump all over stories like this since its an easy sale

[Slayer]

People always go for the easy answers

 

I agree

[Zorin Industries]

I've never had much time for Democracy

[Vanhalen]

the U.K. is quite a pro-censorship country

Are we? Thats news to me

[Zorin Industries]

Its maybe not the rabid censorship we had with the Tories but its still there, though maybe its transfering from videos to computer games, guess well see

[Corey_Lazarus]

Wow. Claw hammer. Like people haven't been killing each other with those since, oh, THEY WERE INVENTED.

 

People die all the time in the Middle East. They don't have many video games over there, if any.

[DCMaximo]

Leicester East MP Keith Vaz asked Tony Blair to investigate links between Manhunt-type games and violence.

 

Mr Blair said, on Wednesday, the game was "wholly unsuitable for children".

 

WELL DONE TONY!! THAT'S why the game has an 18 certificate!!

 

Got to love the way they condemn video games for creating a violent nation, then all week we've seen photos/newspaper stories/TV footage of the police waging a violent bloody war against a group of insane middle-class huntsmen, culminating in bloodshed on the streets of London. Then again, they probably all play violent games, eh Tony? Twat.

[dubq]

Got to love the way they condemn video games for creating a violent nation, then all week we've seen photos/newspaper stories/TV footage of the police waging a violent bloody war against a group of insane middle-class huntsmen, culminating in bloodshed on the streets of London.

Do you have a link to the story?

[DCMaximo]

Panic on the streets of London

 

This is the story with the best image of the rioting outside parliament. It was incredible to watch on TV, the police just repeatedly hammering away with their batons.