Manhunt Violence Story Sees Updates, Threats

Thanks to Blue's News for covering the latest developments in a UK videogame violence story, in which the Rockstar North-created game Manhunt was very allegedly implicated in "a grisly murder" - it's revealed: "The game was present in the victim's home, not the killer's... This may present a problem for those looking to turn this case to their own ends." Nonetheless, previously mentioned attorney Jack Thompson is jumping straight on the case, even from an continent away, according to GameDaily, as he rages: "We are going to destroy Rockstar, you can count on that... [ESA head] Doug Lowenstein makes Saddam Hussein look like a post-reformed Pinocchio." Finally, Gamesindustry.biz injects a thoughtful note into the mayhem, arguing: "Rockstar do not emerge from this affair smelling of roses... game makers could help the case a lot by trying to push the boundaries in terms of gameplay, rather than gore."

Well...

[DAldredge]

At least they didn't show a breast! Now THAT would have been evil and would have corrupted the minds of everyone that saw it.

A new slogan

[BortQ]

Guns don't kill people, videogames kill people.

SKOOOORE!

[gnovos]

Aw MAN he disses Rock Star HARD! I mean like, some guy who murders tens of thousands of people with nerve gas and, like tortured ethnic minorities for fun is, like, way less evil than those fucker trying to make a game. DUUUUuuudDDe!

We are going to destroy you make your time

[hunterx11]

I'd like to make fun of this guy, really I would...but how? He already sounds like a stereotypical villain from an Ayn Rand novel.

dear lawyer...

[Prowl]

if you do destroy rockstar, please do it *after* the release of GTA: San Andreas, and preferably GTA 4 if there is one.

thank you

Re:A new slogan

[Bwerf]

Videogames don't make people violent, lag does.

Re:Jack Thompson.... a lawyer?

[Anonymous Coward]

I know! I mean, isn't calling someone a "pathological liar" just slightly slanderous?

It's not as if Jack Thompson himself has quite got all his marbles.