Grand Theft Auto IV has been dogged by controversy
Grand Theft Auto stabbing disputed
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30 Apr 2008, Iain Thomson , V3
The storm over a stabbing outside a Croydon games store that was selling Grand Theft Auto IV may have been a media panic.
Early reports suggested that a 23 year-old man was stabbed by a hooded man waiting with 100 others in line outside GameStation store in Croydon, which began selling the controversial game at midnight.
But it has since emerged that the stabbing did not take place outside the store and had nothing to do with the people queuing for the popular game.
"The victim had categorically not pre-ordered the game, and GameStation is confident that he was not a GameStation customer. Neither was he part of the queue outside the Croydon store," a source told the GamesRadar blog.
The source also said that the stabbing did not occur outside the store, but a quarter of a mile away outside East Croydon station.
Police have described the attacker as a light skinned black man aged about 21, 6ft 5in tall, of medium build wearing a light grey hooded top.
The victim is recovering in hospital.
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Do you agree?
How do I choose??
Join the Army and kill some innocent Iraqies for oil or buy GTA IV and kill innocent civilians that don't really exists....damn these hard choices!
Posted by G. Bush, 14 May 2008
Are we losing it?
In some countries, people are queuing for food. Here we're queuing for some computer games...
Posted by seb, 01 May 2008
Computer games don't kill people...
...but hysterical myth-fueled frenzies have been known to kill innocent facts.
Posted by MoqingBird, 01 May 2008
Grand Theft Auto stabbing disputed
Look how quick everyone jumped on this story when they thought it showed a parallel between playing the criminal in the game and a real life crime linked to it.
If this disputed story ends up being true and the crime was not in any way linked to the stabbing, what this game release has actually done is massively help promote an appeal to find an attacker, a story which would have usually got minimal press.
Posted by John Boy, 01 May 2008