Yeah, I played GTA III when I was 15, and was summarily institutionalized for going on a murderous rampage.

NOT.

Jim Magneto.

again, parents don't fucking buy this game for your underage kids...don't fucking do it...i don't care, no one knows the effect of younger kids...so might as well nto expose them...as for me... imma rock it out!

Canada is so much better than Amerikkka. FUCK BU$H GO LEAFS!

@ Dr Milkdad

go fuck yourself
...i'm from calgary, and i wouldn't offend where ever it is you're from. Oh btw check out the gaming legislation, none in alberta, but there is some in ontario where i'm guess you're from. SAD

I still don't understand why the media and some politicians make such a big deal out of a violent video game release but they don't give a shit about all the violent movies being released every year.


Really though, I can't wait for that generation to die off...

Habs are great and support Canada's love affair with homos. Leafs are legends of liquor and livations.

@bleep
i believe the americans are making a bigger deal out of this than canada, as for canadians are afraid of our own shadows HAHA this coming from the country that fox news came out of?

That graphic really is glorious.

heeeey...im from Canada, but luckily not from Calgary (that place is a total dumb)

I played GTA3 for 5 minutes and went out a found a hooker, I was very disappointed when no money popped out of them.

The I pushed r1 and circle and killed a police officer


shit was fucked up

Wait, wait. Canada has crime?

OK i am from Calgary and the cops in Calgary do stupid shit like this all the time. i just hope they don't hijack my ups gta4 box

I went to Calgary last year, and I wouldnt be in a huge hurry to go back, but I suppose if you accidentally ended up there and couldnt leave, GTA 4 would be exactly what you would need to take your mind off it. 2 weeks in Vancouver Island was much better.

If anything the consequences are more severe in GTA, I know plenty of assholes who should be in pound me in the ass prison but aren't.

Oh well, till people realize that gaming isn't this mysterious hobby that only a few people do, this will keep happening, people fear what they don't understand.

Your ten-year old brother also won't turn into a master criminal if he does.

Children don't view violence the same way adults, with their jaded and sordid eyes, view violence. At least fake violence.

@ Jim Sterling

Your ten year old brother shouldn't play GT4, just like he shouldn't watch Saw 4. Stop, end of statement. End of discussion.

If people would follow the damn ratings guide we wouldn't have to listen to this crap out of cops and lobbyists all the time.

Haha Canada. So whimsical and entertainingly stupid.

This is the second stupid news I've heard from Canada in two days. For shame. Yesterday the Toronto public transportation union, all of whom's members make at least $30/hr, went on strike without any notice or forewarning, despite having previously promised they'd give 2 day's notice as to not fuck over everyone in the goddamn city.
I have no idea what their demands are, but I can't think of much you could want when you're making $30/hr for unskilled labor.

You know, technically Rockstar is in Scotland, so shouldn't we

Blame Scotland

... okay, that doesn't roll off the tongue as nicely as

Somehow, Canada just got dumber.

In other news today, the end of the world was started by a man named Aertyr who sent off a nuclear bomb in Russia today. Apparently he learned how to do this by pressing buttons on the Atari. It's official, video games are the cause of everything ever.

I'm tired of reading about this shit. How about we actually do something, like email Fox News about the real facts of games and inform them about how videos games are not the problem. Pulling ads and censoring products simply will not stop the sales.

Seriously, I've had enough of this shit.

Back in the 1800s, crime rates were down while everyone read stories filled with sex, killings, murders, and just about anything that is in today's video games.

They are simply repeating themselves here by censoring the published works of art.

Vidia Games are powerful JooJoo. I once took part in a Nethack marathon, and began to hallucinate.

I resisted the urge to kill the multi coloured @s, and befriended a lovable d.

This reminds me of that hilarious time when jackbooted Canadian cops arrested Madonna in Toronto for obscenity (see Truth or Dare movie). Canada also banned the animated Heavy Metal movie when it came out and when the 25th anniversary VHS tape came out they had to lift the ban because the movie seemed pretty tame by todays standards. They even censored the pictures of ladies privates from magazines like Penthouse and Hustler until about 1993 when the companies started printing the magazines in Montreal and then distributing them from there instead of importing from the US. We are talking crotch shots here and no hardcore, although those magazines just werent allowed in at all. Swedish Erotica or Private magazines went for about $50 each here and were really hard to find, even at a sex shop. Apparently Canada Customs agents were taking it upon themselves to censor incoming publications but they had no rules or laws to follow from our government, they were just upholding their own personal sense of decency. Thats why sometimes some things would be censored and then the next month the same thing would get by; different customs person that month. An issue of Penthouse Comix was even censored when one character spanked another a la The Spirit cover by Will Eisner. They put a big white sticker over the whole magazine page just to cover that one panel. Im just glad that enough of the conservative oldsters who wish the queen was still our ruler and who hold up faux religious values while breaking their own rules from behind closed doors have finally retired and we can have some colloquial talk in our literature now. The US constitution protects freedom of the speech and press but in Canada we have a lame-ass charter of rights in which the first paragraph states that they can override any of the freedoms any time they want. Dont listen to anything people from Calgary say, all they care about is hockey, which they were busy watching instead of turning off their sets on Earth Day recently. You can bet your ass that they wont be warning anyone about how watching and playing hockey teaches people that fist fighting is an acceptable way of solving disputes with another athlete.