Spike TV's "Murder" Puts Video Game Violence Under Investigation |
| Published: August 31, 2007, 3:46 pm |
| Tags: gamer life, episode, murder, spike tv, tv show, violence |
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It’s ironic that this is the first episode of Spike TV’s “Murder” — where real people try to solve staged re-creations of actual crimes — that I’ve ever watched. So I was mighty surprised to find the role violent video games played in the investigation of one episode involving a young girl murdered in her home. The way the reality show is set up is six people are divided into two teams of three and tasked with recovering and analyzing the evidence of an actual crime in order to solve it. This particular episode involved a young girl being stabbed to death while her family slept. Now, this is the sort of show where you can easily find yourself shouting profanities at your TV screen like a football fan whose team is losing badly. But the part that got me most riled up was when one team automatically began to suspect the girl’s brother as the killer, mostly due the violent video games and comics found in his room. Here are some of my [ Full article ] |
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