Vice City under fire
Howard "nice new template" Bashman reports on the video industry's challenge on a ban on games depicting cop killing:
Sidenote: I played about 5 hours of Vice City, one of the targets of Washington's video game cop killing ban, this past weekend and would not at all mind eliminating the cops from the game -- they simply get in the way of trying to lead a life of crime and impede my ability to kill rivals at will; always popping up to bust me just as I'm boosting a car to make my getaway. Of course this would ruin the game by making it much easier; it seems to me that the pols clearly don't understand how necessary the cops are to the game.
Today's edition of The Detroit News contains this report from Bloomberg News. Anyone interested in additional coverage of the lawsuit filed last week in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington can access additional details here (pr from IDSA); here; here; and here.I previously reported that the 8th Circuit recently ruled that video games are in fact protected by the first amendment. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Sidenote: I played about 5 hours of Vice City, one of the targets of Washington's video game cop killing ban, this past weekend and would not at all mind eliminating the cops from the game -- they simply get in the way of trying to lead a life of crime and impede my ability to kill rivals at will; always popping up to bust me just as I'm boosting a car to make my getaway. Of course this would ruin the game by making it much easier; it seems to me that the pols clearly don't understand how necessary the cops are to the game.
