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The Daily Mail has given GTA a 5/5 rating on its entertainment pages – just days after the newspaper called the game ‘squalid mind poison’ Reviewer James O’Brien was full of praise for the title, saying it was ‘as epic as it is violent’. In the article, he wrote: ‘There’s …
Read More »Daily Mail takes another potshot at games
The Daily Mail has attacked one of the more traditionally innocent cornerstones of our industry – the humble Nintendo DS. After years of being praised across the national media for its family-friendly qualities, the newspaper’s Rosie Millard calls the console a toxic drug” in her first-person piece about her experience …
Read More »Daily Mail: Games are hurting kids
We’re sorry. Repeating the same story – nay, the same sensational headline – two years in a row just to secure attention from readers is a dirty journalistic trick. You wouldn’t catch an august, dignified national newspaper like The Daily Mail relying on this sort of unethical subterfuge to up …
Read More »TV legend slams games in Daily Mail
You’re a national newspaper editor. You need a serious think piece in the wake of the Byron Review’s largely sensible recommendations, but no-one in the office quite cuts the mustard. Who you gonna call…? That’s right. Anne Diamond. In perhaps the finest piece of national games-focused journalism of the year, …
Read More »BYRON REVIEW: Media Reaction
Newspapers across the country have responded this morning to Dr Tanya Byron’s report ‘Safer Children in a Digital World’. The Times was the most in depth, offering up two pages and a front cover to the story that included a picture of a six-year-old boy playing Grand Theft Auto. The …
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