The Thai government is blaming violent video games for the killing of a taxi driver. A 19 year old student that thought he not got enough money from his parents to play more video games tried to rob a taxi driver.
The 19 years old that is way over his age to stay in school sits all day and play video games. He thought he would do a quick robbery like in Grand Theft Auto and then play some more. Unfortunate for him the taxi driver fought back and the 19 years old killed him with some knifes he brought from home. He then took the car and even he never drove in his life he tried to do as the video game. The police found him stuck behind the wheel and the rest is history.
The Thai government answer was off course swift and totally of target and they blamed the video game instead of the big problems that they have in the Thai society right now.
Thailand has also a new cyber law that demands every company to record and ID all internet users on the company computer and that includes hotels and internet cafes. So next time they offer free WIFI in the hotel think about that they save your information for 3 month.
Grand Theft Auto – San Adreas
Grand Theft Auto-San Adreas is a 3D video game which was launched in 2004 by Rockstar North, initially to be played in PlayStation2 versions, but now is available in Xbox variants as well and has sold about 14 million copies worldwide. It is an action packed adventure series revolving around the lead character CJ or Carl Johnson who is an African American and member of a gang and it is the user who controls the actions of CJ in course of the game. The game revolves around his journey in unfolding the mysterious death of his mother. This is the main crux of the plot and several other minor incidents like gang wars, action chases add on to the total effect of the game. The city of San Adreas which is no less than a character in this game is a fictional city located somewhere between California and Nevada and apart from this central location, the storyline also takes the players to three other cities like the imaginary San Fierro based on real life San Francisco, Las Venturas and its adjoining desert region modeled on the city of Las Vegas and its adjoining Nevada desert regions and finally the illusionary city of Los Santos based on the city of Los Angeles.
It should be noted here that many characters belonging to the other Grand Theft Auto series of games also feature in this version, like some members of CJ’s gang, Claude and Catalina. This game has also introduced several innovations, unseen in the previous versions. These include the use of around two hundred vehicles, fire arms and greater fire power. With time, the game has turned more realistic and it now allows multi player facility by means of which two players can co operate and play together.
However, Grand Auto Theft-San Adreas has often been in the news for the wrong reasons and ha been removed from the market in some cases because of its alleged adult content.
