"ManHunt" Case Update

[GodMedia]

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."

Original Story (http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/08/04/0114206.shtml?tid=127&tid=123&tid=17)

[Dahne]

[ESA head] Doug Lowenstein makes Saddam Hussein look like a post-reformed Pinocchio.

Oh sweet Yog-Sothoth on a pogo stick.

[thegreatescape]

All your base are belong to us

Seriously though, i dont expect theres enough in this particular case anymore for Jack "Asshat" Tompson to make another case out of, given the veritable bombshell that the victim owned the game not the killer.

[Hovoc]

people blame the games


take away the games and see what kind of hell you unleash

if a pissed off kid cant take out his anger in a video game, where will it go?

[Cauterize]

if a pissed off kid cant take out his anger in a video game, where will it go?

thats a really good point.... this world is messed up anyway... and unfortuantely for me i live in the uk... its going totally downhill..