The latest person to jump on the “video games made me do it” bandwagon was Phalawat Chinno who decided to attempt to rob a taxi cab because it was so easy to do it in GTA IV. When the taxi driver fought back, the man stabbed him 10 times. So what does the Thai government do in response to this tragic slaying? Why ban the game, of course.

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PC gamers, rejoice: America’s favorite immigrant, Niko Bellic, is making his second big move, and this time his boat has landed on the shores of the PC gaming realm. After over six months of speculation, Rockstar officially announced that Grand Theft Auto IV will be released for Windows in November; and with promises of an expanded multiplayer experience, there’s no reason to believe that this title will be anything less than a classic.

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One could say games have matured with age like a fine, smut-filled wine.  Once innocent, 8-bit pastimes, they have evolved into decadent, grandiose monstrosities.  Love them or hate them, you have to give them props for coming this far.  The further they evolve, the more closely they mimic reality—and I’m not just talking about the graphics. 

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And you thought $5 was a lot to pay for a Grande Latte. If you’ve been in a cave for the last three years, or if all you have is a Nintendo, then you probably haven’t heard about the controversy involving Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the city of Los Angeles, and one sexy, hot cup of coffee.

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No, I still haven’t played GTA IV, don’t ask me to explain why. Apparently, though, some guy who has, and seemingly doesn’t have a degree in Psychology, any experience in law enforcement, and has never read Johnathan Swift, was seriously offended by a joke in this adult-centric video game. The man theorizes that people will become pedophiles not by playing GTA IV, but by stumbling across a fake, FBI-seized porn website within the game called littlelacysurprisepageant.com, which isn’t any more suspicious than actual legitimate porn site URLs that I probably can’t list off here. Needless to say, the source of this story was a tabloid, Britain’s The Star.

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Have you bought the latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto franchise yet? If not, you’re probably in the minority – according to the game’s record-smashing sales, everyone and his mother went out to buy the game in its first week. The game made $310 million in its initial twenty-four hours, easily trumping the previous entertainment sales record set by Master Chief himself (a measly $170 million). It went on to gross $500 million that first week.

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In the mixed up, back-and-forth spitfire debate that is violence in video games, there is one constant of life that cannot be denied: charts make everything easier to understand.

Even our favorite attorney, —who wows with eloquent and professional pet names for gamers such as “nitwit” and “knucklehead pixelantes” on the LiveJournal community GamePolitics—can follow this lovely graph, based on statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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So it looks like with the release of the next Grand Theft Auto game, Rockstar intends to launch a site called Rockstar Games: Social Club, where gamers will be able to view statistical leader boards, participate in competitions, view a virtual map that will keep track of players’ activities in the single-player campaign, and tons of other features that Rockstar will roll out as time goes on.
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