In response to the murder of a taxi driver, GTA 4 has been banned across Thailand and is being pulled from shelves all over the country.
According to Captain Veerarit Pipatanasak of the Bangkok police; "[the murderer] wanted to find out if it was as easy in real life to rob a taxi as it was in the game."
That's just fabulous, this news is sure to spread across all news channels eventually, expect Fox News, Sky News, Jack Thompson and the censorship boards to eat this news up and spit it back into the faces of gamers everywhere.



I do however find this slightly over the top and somewhat hypocritical of Thailands police and government. I've been to Thailand quite a few times and I'm sorry Thailand, but your record on crime and human rights is pretty appalling. The child sex trade is still running, drugs, violence, bad healthcare and crime run rampant, even without the prescence of GTA 4.
So perhaps they should be looking at problems other than gaming and I hope they realise that there are problems in Thailand that banning a game isn't going to solve.



However, eventually this story is going to break on news networks, so expect there to be a media backlash against GTA once more with this as a much repeated example.

Stay sexy Dtoid.
- Andy H