It seems that the parade of pundits angrily shaking their fists as they list the myriad ways in which videogames would be the downfall of civilization may have been on to something. According to the fine folks atArsnot even 24 hours beforeGTA IVhits the streets crime isalreadyon the rise in the form of a few UPS employees helping themselves to your pre-ordered murder simulator of choice.
Now, I was once an employee of these brownshirted ne’erdowells and — at least in the center that I worked — theft was an uncommon experience; an assertion confirmed by Ars’ clandestine contact at UPS. But really that only serves to prove the point thatGTA IVis the culmination of all the arguments we’ve ever heard that video games would turn us into godless savages. The game isn’t evenoutyet and already the crime wave has begun.
Take heed my friends, the cycle of easily-influenced-violence stops with you.
