Rockstar awarded ‘substantial’ damages by British newspaper over false GTA c
Supposedly entitled ‘Grand Theft Auto: Rothbury‘ after the small English town where the crimes were committed in July, Daily Star attacked Rockstar Games as “questionable idiots” who were exploiting other people’s misery for their own financial gain. What was their evidence? A Photoshopped package shot the author picked up in a forum.
Rockstar’s court victory comes after the newspaper issued a grovelling apology after the inaccuracies came to light, where it claimed it made “no attempt to check the accuracy of the story before publication.”
Even though Daily Star did not do the fact-checking they should have, they did manage to make the effort to grab a comment from a relative of one of Moat’s victims about the game. Err… what was that about “exploiting misery for financial gain”, eh?
Whether this case will encourage fairer reporting of the videogames industry remains to be seen, but it did yet again reveal just how ignorant some potentially influential people are to gaming, even after the age of the family-friendly Wii and DS.
http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/2010/10/06/rockstar-awarded-substantial-damages-by-british-newspaper-over-false-gta-claims/
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sKiLeDMaSsAcRePosted:
Aznboy38 Wow horrible photoshop job i can tellf'sho.people r becoming retarded lately.i bet over 1000 people believed this was real.hahahahahah
iwafflezPosted:
___G7 the star is just full of crap,the only good thing is page 3, and this is just utter nonsense.
lol, couldn't agree more...
And also, GTA: Rothbury wouldn't be the most appealling game name, now would it. It would be really boring to play gta in a tiny geordie town.
YERGRLSBBYDADDYPosted:
MassaChef Wow I wonder if the author actually believed that crappy photoshop job.
Terrible photoshop, hahaha. Lets see your work.
G_ManPosted:
the star is just full of crap,the only good thing is page 3, and this is just utter nonsense.
-BlitzKrieg-Posted:
Certainly was rediculous. Covered this ages ago.
http://www.thetechgame.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=278246.html
http://www.thetechgame.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=278246.html
OasisPosted:
I can understand why R* are peeved, it's a pretty harsh joke one any day of the week, but to be part of a very distasteful joke is worse.
For those that didn't see the pic >
http://www.itchythumbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/GTA-Rothbury-Image-1.jpg
For those that didn't see the pic >
http://www.itchythumbs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/GTA-Rothbury-Image-1.jpg
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