In lieu of the tragic events at Virginia Tech earlier this week, attorney and anti-gaming activist Jack Thompson has thrown himself onto the media circuit, releasing press releases, making appearances on FOX News Channel, and now sending an open letter to Microsoft CEO Bill Gates blaming Microsoft and the game Counter-strike for the 32 killed at the east coast campus.
In the letter, Thompson quotes a Washington Post article that seems to corroborate his claims regarding the culpability of violent video games in the Virginia Tech shootings, although the Post the statements that Thompson used to substantiate his argument.
One interesting fact that Thompson has overlooked is that while Microsoft did publish the Xbox version of Counter-strike in 2003, Valve Software originally developed Counter-strike and Vivendi Universal handles the publication of the game on the PC, which is really the only version that’s played on large scale now.
Simply put, even if Mr. Thompson were right that video games are to blame - which we disagree with stringently - he's blaming the wrong company.
Below is a copy of Thompson’s letter to Mr. Gates.
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For those who haven't been keeping track of gaming news the past week, Microsoft recently announced the Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta's launch date: May 16th at 5AM PDT, and the beta will run until June 6th at 11:59PM PDT.
In addition to this, Bungie released an interesting documentary that you can likely find at you favorite game sites, although I would suggest checking out www.gametrailers.com as they have the Hi-Def version downloadable without any sort of subscription/user creation, and one of their users uploaded a great 'analysis' of the video, picking appart the various things that are in the video but not mentioned by Bungie.
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Trenches 2, a WWI mod and sequel to the HL1 mod The Trenches was announced this week.
"We are very proud to announce that The Trenches 2 is in the works. The Trenches 2 will be based on Valve's Source Engine. Never before you have been able to experience the First World War in such an authentic and accurate environment. You will almost be able to smell the gas and feel the wet and muddy dirt slipping through your gear. "
Head over to their site http://www.thetrenchesmod.net/ to check out the latest news .
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