I think MCV can be forgiven for ending their story with such a leading question. Like most in this industry, they must be just as frustrated at the ongoing trend of blame loosed at the gaming community.
Clearly this is another case of an extremely disturbed individual, performing criminal acts, who also happens (like millions of others) to own a copy of GTA, which at 17 he shouldn't.
Selfish though it may be, it's a shame they didn't find any Marilyn Manson CDs instead. Nothing against him, but his retorts seem to come a little more readily and with the vitriol that these journalists deserve.

havent u just covered this article mcv ? the comments on suppliers on the morrions stories are much more interesting, some real truths coming out here and frustration being vented !
there are always going to be stories like this, manhunt etc etc, its nothing new

Could someone please remind The Sun that games are like movies: They don't create psychos. They only make psychos more creative.

Have they taken into account how many people have played GTA and NOT gone on a violent rampage or raped someone?

Someone who cannot differentiate the idea of being a bad character (to which the game points out you are, the word crime is on the box, and in the game describing the actions of the player) in a game and committing actual REAL crimes must have some kind of psychological disorder. Games aren't to blame.

I'm a very passive person, though nothing has made me laugh more than decapitating three old ladies with a samuri sword on the GTA3 golf course. Do I wish to carry this out in real life? No. Has GTA made me fantasize about doing a driveby with an automatic? Maybe. Will I act out that fantasy? No.
On the flip side: Does the media form opinion and end up causing a lynch mob beat up a paediatrician for being a paedophile? Yes. Does the media create a storm on a range of issues that trigger a virtual war of distrust between Muslims and everyone else? Yes. Has it helped fuel the fires of our economic collapse? Yes.

Don't know hwo you are but that is one of the smartest posts I've ever read on here (actually - probably one of the best arguments ever to appear on the same page as the name MCV but that's a different conversation) - well done, sir!

...and how much of that popularity has come from the entire gaming internet linking the story in incandescent rage?

If we're going to feed these stories with hits, then we're as bad as the papers who give the violent games their free publicity.

The article stated the police found the game in his house, and thought "maybe" he copied the game in real life. So then The Sun newspaper decided to blow it out of proportion.

Well done to The Sun, you have just promoted the game even more.

Just to let people know, the police took away all the games from his home during a search and only found an early GTA, he was already in police custody when the edition they are blaming even came out. Lets get the facts right.

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