Will this guy not be happy until some frustrated gamer out there directly threatens/assaults/kills him, just so he can prove his point!? Seriously its like he's just being a complete bell-end to provoke us all. Dude- its catagorically not the games that make people violent otherwise EVERY SINGLE PERSON who played them would instantly be transformed into a raging psycho. Obviously this isnt the case so have we now established that these arguments are completely redundent? Personally I tend to play violent games (amoungst many other genres) as a means of countering my exposure to a controlling nanny state. Its the individuals responsibility to control there own actions. Period!

Its got bugger all to do with Microsoft as to who is responsible for mature rated games going to minors, thats the job of the certification people, ESRB or whoever they are and the people behind the counter in the shops.

Blaming Microsoft is like blaming the company that made the bullets that were in that korean kids gun at the virginia tech shootings, this Jack Thompson is a complete nob jockey.

How on earth did he think Halo was a good target for him, GTA and Manhunt i can kinda get because they are kinda based more in a real world enviroment than say Halo and involve mindless violence purley for entertainment purpose's, Halo however is about super human Spartans fighting against a varied group of alien race's with plasma rifles and swords and laser cannons, c'mon.

Jack was either high at the time of writing that email but more likely i think he had just been playing the Halo Beta and got completely whooped by some gobshite yank kid and he couldnt handle it :P

This guy is just a loose cannon... and also a paper tiger I'm starting to get the feel. Has he ever been really succesful on one of his 'hunts'? I mean, you occasionally hear him doing this or that, but he never seems to do anything major... He's like the guy getting rejected by every chick in town but never giving up...

Thats what makes it even more annoying to here about this twat.

Nothing he ever does or says against the video games industry will ever have any kind of affect on the industry, the fact that this little ignorant tit thinks he could ever have any kind of impact on a multi million dollar industry like the video games industry is just a joke.

God only knows what makes dicks like him think he is making the world a better and safer place.

In a sense, I'm behind him. I hate playing online with whiny, prepubescent, racist, homophobic, self-important 12 year olds. Let's get this age system in place.

I get what your saying dude but i really dont think thats what Thompson is getting at, if that is the case though then they need to rate the game with a NO americans at all rating because i assure you it aint just yank kids that are the tits.

If your american and not a tit and i have offended you then blame your majority and not me :P

God damn it speed. You will pay for this post!!

I was kinda hoping Jack would throw himself in front of an 18-wheeler one of these days but taking on M$ is almost as good...*snickers*

"I have done that before succesfully as to Best Buy and i shall do so again to microsoft"

only one problem dude...this isn't Best Buy

Cock jokey.