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With all the controversy surrounding anything even resembling violence or sexual content in games taking over news networks we felt it was time to round it all up for your viewing disgust pleasure. Have you ever heard the expression, “taking your cake and eating it too?” Watch as networks and talking heads die to portray any resemblance of pop-culture understanding, ironically alienating a segment of their current and future viewers, by grasping at straws to the content in Grand Theft Auto IV then cutting to commercial break, post fear-mongering, for a quick cash out.
There’s violence and criminal activity in Grand Theft Auto? Who knew?! You know, other than anyone who can read the title that is. Sexual content? Yes. No argument there. However, watching the spin added to the optional sexual material included in the game makes us wonder what happened to investigative reporters.
If we made a claim here and were wrong our readers call us on it, but time and time again “respectable” reporters from mainstream networks get away with shoveling countless false claims against the gaming industry.
Much like GTAIV’s own radio news network, the whole thing is a giant joke. Jump in for some choice selections of news links and video clips revolving around GTAIV.
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Two weeks later and it seems Grand Theft Auto IV has yet to lose its luster.
What They Play has become a well known source of information for parents that strive to involve themselves in their children’s favorite hobby. While the site has been an important voice against gaming detractors for some time, its cause has become even more relevant since the release of Rockstar’s epic journey and subsequent tar & feathering.
In a continuing series of written facts and video examples, What They Play has compiled everything parents will need to examine before they allow their children near GTA IV. Videos outlining the extent of gunplay, language and sexual content found in the game are a handful of examples that can be found on the parent focused website.
While the feature and site has proven to be an important source of information, we hope the future of What They Play includes expanding into other languages to keep the parental knowledge base on an even “playing field” across the globe.
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The Daily Mail is one of the last and most volatile bastions of anti-videogames ignorance in the UK. Demonizing games at every opportunity, this “newspaper” is responsible for the infamous “BAN THIS SICK FILTH” headline that ran following the murder of Stephen Pakeerah, in which the rag called for the banning of games that hadn’t even been released at the time.
Yet, while still insisting that Grand Theft Auto IV is “a sickening glorification of gangland savagery,” (it claims that’s an understatement) The Daily Mail has actually given the game a 5/5 review, stating that “There’s no denying, however that this latest version of the Grand Theft franchise is a phenomenal technological and creative achievement that is set to generate more money for its British designers than any Hollywood release in years.”
In a way, it’s no surprise that The Daily Mail would perform such a stark 180 degree turn since it is, after all, a tabloid, and it’ll ape whatever opinion it thinks is popular. So, the paper that has regularly encouraged the banning of videogames is now saying things like this:
“Killing is occasionally optional, dialogue and cut scenes are devoted to Nikos’s inner turmoil and while criminality and violence are certainly glorified, its perpetrators are somehow not. Even Niko has sufficient soul to see his employers for the scum they are.”
While I’ve applauded The Guardian for its genuine pro-gaming stance, The Daily Mail gets no such kudos. This is, after all, the paper that got Anne Diamond to call for the banning of Resident Evil 4 and make an absolute mockery of modern videogames. All I’ll say is that if this is the start of The Daily Mail realizing that alienating gamers with its ridiculous witch hunting is a stupid business decision — it’s about bloody time.
Rockstar’s biggest attacker dishes out 5/5 for GTA IV.
Daily Mail, the famously anti-videogames newspaper, has reviewed “murder simulator” Grand Theft Auto IV and erm, shockingly given it full marks.
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