The Guardian wants you to play GTA IV

When I spoke to Jack Thompson, he was pretty confident that his "side" of the violent games debate had already won. He spoke with the belief that common consensus was on his side and that one day, we’d all be saying "I should have listened to Jack." While the anti-game lobby thinks it will prevail — despite the history of entertainment media proving them otherwise — the tide is undeniably turning in favor of games, as The Guardian continues to show.
The Guardian is a British newspaper which has now run its third pro-gaming piece of recent weeks. The Observer’s Catherine Bennett has suggested that PM Gordon Brown ought to try Grand Theft Auto IV to get out his frustrations. She also brings up the new book, Grand Theft Childhood:
The authors, two Harvard psychiatrists, Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl K Olson, were told by many young players that they played violent games […]

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