With the violence still erupted at some places in England, it certainly leaves an horrific mark to the country and the people there.
So, to prevent more riots in the future, it still remains to be seen whether the top authorities in London will want to take measures by blocking access to the upcoming release of widely expected blockbuster shooter hit this coming months, particularly, Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3.
Yesterday, The London Evening Standard, whose front page of their daily newspaper suggested Grand Theft Auto is the one that had inspired London’s riots although that later has been debunked with the paper issued a reprint binning the game blame reference altogether.
The paper originally published the blurb: “Children as young as ten, inspired by video game, among the looters”, along with a ‘Lawless London’ headline.
However, the sub-head later has been changed to: “Children as young as ten hunted by Police”. All reference to the popular Grand Theft Auto video game was also dismissed from the main story.
But still, concerned are still there that video games has been playing a major part in the outrage of the young teens in UK.
Modern Warfare 3 will debut in November while for Battlefield 3, they will hit the shelves in the previous month of October.
Leon
Aug 24. 2011
If I was in the game developer’s POV I would consider the fact that if I sold my game to England Gamestops, etc., and if the Riots were still continuing there could possibly be a problem where that people would steal MW3/BF3 and there would be no profit coming in from England. If they didn’t sell it to England there would probably be more riots. If you ask me and I love video games my self, if people are this crazy about a video game that is possibly going to be banned then I think they should at least wait until the riots are calming down.
Roman Bellic
Aug 24. 2011
I think we should all go bowling.
jamie
Aug 24. 2011
The riots were linked to the police killing that guy who shot at them. the media and the goverment dont see things for what they are. They see things as others fault and not there own. On live tv David Cameron read a statement blaming parents for not raising there kids to a good standard. Every one knows thats a bullshit reason for the riots. To be honest i dont see David Cameron as PM for much longer. He angers people with his decisions as most of them affect the lower and middle class. The upper class are perfectly fine and they dont need to worry about anything. For example the university fees have gone up becuase David Cameron and the dirty MPs want more money. with the prices gone up the middle class might be able to afford university but it must be a real struggle for the lower class who can barely afford to live. The reason our country is in debt is because of all the dicks in parliment. MP’s stealing TAX PAYERS money and spending it on themselves. The royal wedding was paid for with tax payers money but the tax payers didnt get invites. But the biggest reason of all is benefits. Im not getting at everyone on benefits just the people who dont deserve it. People who can work and decide not to and claim benefits. I used to talk to this person whos parents where on benefits. there was nothing wrong with his mother. but his father had something wrong with his knee so he couldnt walk for long. Sure he cant walk for long but that doesnt mean he cant get a job as a bus driver or a taxi driver. The reason this country is in debt is because when the tax payers pump money in most of it gets pumped out because of the people on benefits. Computer games are a big seller in england and people buying them helps the economy. if we want our country to be better i say we should stop the rioting and looting and start rioting outside of 10 downing street. Look at the people who were jailed for 5 year for posting on facebook its absolutely disgusting how our goverment act. I was watching the news and it said for stealing 2 T-shirts worth £60 each you would be put in custody for 1 day, but for stealing 2 bottles of water worth £1 each you would be jailed for 7 month. its ridicolous this country is going to fall apart unless we get david cameron out of downing street. also i think we should get rid of the royal family. the only way the queen affects the country is by saying what the prime minister can and cant do. so in that case what is the point. Besides all the royal family do is sit about. I mean on the news “prince harry is in afghanistan its an emergancy we must get him out he shouldnt be there” who cares its Harry’s life if he wants to go to afghanistan let him why shouldnt he be allowed to do what he wants. The goverment complain about a couple of riots. Look at Libya the rebels fighting the military in the streets because there sick of the leader. and the goverment cry because we’re rioting? i’d hate to see what they’d do if we started fighting in the streets like the rebels.
Yabba
Aug 29. 2011
don’t kid yourself mate the shooting of Mark Duggan had nothing to do with with it, he was a drug dealer with a loaded gun, some pikeys just felt like getting some free stuff and rioting
shamzshamz
Jan 17. 2012
right on. the police, government, etc are whack. they should kill themselves. fkin biccches.
Paul
Aug 26. 2011
i very doubt battlefield 3 will be banned in the uk as shouldnt gta franchise be banned in the usa due to noobs blaming the game for killing there own family and friends….
this article is useless as the bloody americans want it a year before the rest of europe lol
qwerty
Aug 26. 2011
Another bunch of lies, video games don’t make people riot and become angry, they may give ideas granted but so does, tv, friends, newspapers ect. they can riot over anything don’t just single out video games because its what youths like and there is moderate violence. Why don’t they ban violent films because of rioting. Also banning the game in the UK will probably start more issues than it solves because if people don’t get the game they resort to piracy and possibly protests.
The older generation misunderstand games. Clockwork orange was banned because one person got ideas, that is sad admittedly and and nasty but things like that cause a media shit storm so any violent film is banned out of fear of more deaths but that was just one man not the population. I don’t support the rioting and the consequences are severe as they should be to reduce rioting but sometimes I think they put all there ideas on a roulette board and spin and look at the out come.
bambi
Aug 27. 2011
“So, to prevent more riots in the future, it still remains to be seen whether the top authorities in London will want to take measures by blocking access to the upcoming release of widely expected blockbuster shooter hit this coming months, particularly, Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3″
…………. lol to “PREVENT” more riots in the future? is this kid fucking serious? this article is a wind up… it has to be? or it was written by a god dam mong…
which raises the questions what kind of people are listening to the ramblings of a biased mong? and if these people are parents… how the hell could they be considered mentally fit to raise a kid?
edog
Aug 27. 2011
look im 14 and i play violent games u dont see me killing people or rioting so WTF is this about vidio games making tenns and kids violant? if u ask me if thay ban them there will be more riots!
Yabba
Aug 29. 2011
He is obviously not English……
No one in the government has mentioned banning or blaming games and the Evening Standard is one of the Least read papers, mainly because it’s all rubbish
The Evening standard represents an extremely small minority of people and the journalist represents even fewer
jonathan1904
Sep 03. 2011
im 12 i play every 18+ u can think of i only use mic when i playing private party with my friends or with other kids and don’t use them when adults are playing because i know it will annoy them if only every other 12 year old did this then they wouldn’t blame games if they get banned i might even riot what are we supposed to do with all the crap weather i rarely go out do to my family does not have much money my sister is about to go to UNI which is going to hard enough to aford
A Kid u love Black ops
Sep 08. 2011
hey why do they blame the games for what parents did, im a 13 year old kid from london
hey i didnt go on the riot cause i was kicking ass on black ops i didnt even know about the riot, its the parent who should be blamed cause they let there kids go out at night and anyway i dont annoy adults cause i play on the wii and even of there is a 18+ on the match i just listen to them and do what they say cause there always better than me, if anyone who read this comment have a wii and got black ops go visit my clan it cbassassins.spruz.com
dghnm
Sep 08. 2011
if you take away violent video games than some will be MORE urged to do it in real life as they cannot do it in a cost free world
The Only Ninja1
Sep 09. 2011
people starting riots BLAME VIDEO GAMES who the hell comes up with this crap
Sn0wGl0be
Nov 07. 2011
Face to the palm. I love how they always use video games as a scapegoat for shit like this. Listen, kids dont start rioting because a VIDEO GAME “encouraged” them ok? They riot for the same reasons anyone in any part of the world riots, because they’re strongly against the ppl in power or certain group or whatever, and want change. Of course there are those that take advantage of the chaos and just want to pillage anything in their path, but there’s crap like that in everything.
And those who DO start riots or do whatever because they played a game, it isnt ENTIRELY the game’s fault. There’s alot more factors that play in there, some which would NEVER be mentioned by the media.
Anyways, hope you CoD fans in the UK get your game somehow. =[
This is one of those times where pirating would be justified lol. ;]