More on Columbine RPG May 25, 2006
Posted by mwj as crime, games, opinion. 2 comments.Serious Games Source has provided more coverage on the maker of the Super Columbine Massacre RPG, Danny Ledonne.
Video games lead to domestic shooting April 27, 2006
Posted by mwj as crime, games, journalism, news, world of warcraft. add a comment.Ok, so the headline is a little sensational, but apparently a dispute between a father and his 24 year old son led to the father shooting a wall three feet away from his son’s head. He had threatened to shoot the monitor after the son refused to do laundry and continued playing games (I’d bet on World of Warcraft).
Russian politician plays blame game with racism April 20, 2006
Posted by mwj as crime, games, news, politics, technology. 4 comments.From the Russian news source mosnews.com:
The MP said that the spread of such information technologies [the Internet, computer games] was one of the causes of the rise of nationalist and extremist tendencies in Russian society.
Grand Theft Auto cited as reason for crime April 14, 2006
Posted by mwj as crime, games, law, news. add a comment.Read the full article at Gamespot:
After slamming into two cars, McMillan told police that he thought he could outrun them because he played games from Rockstar’s controversial Grand Theft Auto franchise.