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October 30, 2004 Link to this post
More on violence and... Xboxes?
A little off-topic, but... Spideroptics sent us another example of journalists cutting a few corners to make a point. His local paper, the UK Guardian, put up a couple of articles recently about GTA: San Andreas (here and here), mirroring content in the print edition. What amused him was the picture (150K) that was published in the paper with these - not only is the guy in the pic not actually PLAYING a game (he's watching a promotional video), but he's holding an Xbox controller - and as of right now, GTA: SA is a PlayStation2-only game. Again, the Xbox is unfairly dragged into a discussion of violence (it might actually have a PLACE in the discussion, but it should be brought in fairly, no?). Following the recent Today Show silliness, it's making me think less and less of mainstream press with respect to gaming news. (Louis Wu 11:23:18 UTC)
