According to a 1Up.com article from Monday (yes, I’m late on this one, and I borrowed their photo, too… shoot me.) The Chicago Transit Authority has decided to pull an ad champaign for the to-be-released-next-week Grand Theft Auto IV, because “M-Rated “violent video games” ought to be banned from its premises as they compare similarly to X-rated movies.”
Seriously? Give me a break. There are R-rated movies more offensive than most M-rated games, the GTA series included, and those are perfectly fine to advertise on buses. On the bright side, this is a classic example of “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”. Pulling one ad campaign isn’t going to hurt sales for a game as highly anticipated as GTA IV. If anything, it’ll help them along.
Now if only my current-generation console collection included something other than a Wii…
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(Posted April 23rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm)
[…] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThe Chicago Transit Authority has decided to pull an ad champaign for the to-be-released-next-week Grand Theft Auto IV, because “M-Rated “violent video games” ought to be banned from its premises as they compare similarly to X-rated … […]