Don't Kill all the Haitians

Despite Take-Two Interactive Software's promise to remove the "kill the Haitians" dialogue from new editions of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Haitian-American advocacy groups have filed suit seeking damages and a ban on the game's sales. The groups also claim that video game violence causes psychological harm to children and leads some to be violent toward others. [ed note: The dialogue is actually important contextually since the main character in the video game is being pulled in two directions; under the spell of a Haitian Voodoo woman to kill the Cubans while simultaneously working for a Cuban fat man to expunge the Haitians from the Cubans turf. The main character is morally ambivalent since his only drive in the game is to make money so he can buy strip clubs and such.]

You can read more about the specifics of the case here.

Update: Florida city targets computer game violence [via The Importance of]

See also: Video Games and Wal-Mart Did not Kill Your Children, OK? | Vice City Protected by First Amendment | Interactive Digital Software Ass'n v. St. Louis County, 329 F.3d 954 (8th Circuit 2003) | American Amusement Machine Ass'n v. Kendrick, 244 F.3d 572 (7th Cir. 2001) (video games are a form of speech)