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Thailand pulls the plug from GTA IV sales

August 5, 2008 By Kunal Gangar 1 Comment

Enactment of the incident

Enactment of the incident


 

Today’s youths need to know the differentiation between reality and virtual reality. An 18-year old high school student recently robbed a taxi driver before killing him to death. He was not in need of money but in fact he wanted to see if the real world crime is as easy to commit as it is done in the GTA series. He was an avid player of the franchise and confessed that “he wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game.”

Post incident, the local distributor wants to play it safe and has decided to take the game away from the retail shelves. It’s saddening from two perspectives – that an innocent guy died and secondly, other sane gamers will be deprived of the game.

[Via Reuters]

  • GTA IV to hit PCs in November
  • GTA V coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One later this year
  • Rockstar to release GTA: San Andreas for mobile devices this December
  • Rockstar Games to release GTA V on Sep 17

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