Evidently, removing scary scary violent video games from US arcades is a trend now. So reports the Associated Press that, quite typically, can’t be bothered to name any of the video games involved.
There’s a movement afoot in Germany to hold a mass burning of “killerspiele” — their word for violent video games — in front of the Reichstag in Berlin on January 27. Leni Riefenstahl died eight years ago, so if this really happens, someone else will have to film it.
Antwand Pearman is a father. As we spoke on the phone this afternoon, his kids chattered in the background. He kept apologising, but I told him I didn’t mind.