An editorial in today's gamesindustry.biz email newsletter runs through the responses to Rockstar's game, Canis Canem Edit (or Bully) having a swing at people who have made themselves look stupid -- the "astonishingly ignorant British MP Keith Vaz", American anti-violence campaigner Jack Thompson, the trashy Daily Star newspaper and so on.
However, worst of all out of this sorry lot -- and perhaps most inexcusable of all -- is British retailer Currys, which this week took the astonishing decision to publicly refuse to stock the game, a clear bending to tabloid will in the face of perfectly clear facts about the product.
But while there's not much gamers can do about various types of rentagob, the Currys group's fortunes (including Dixons and PC World -- all the same company) depend on large numbers of games-playing customers who go to its stores not just for games consoles but for hi-def TV sets, music payers, cameras, and lots of other electronics products.
Wouldn't it be quite a message to send, if a significant proportion of gamers were to decide to boycott the Currys chain -- and to let them know that their appalling behaviour over Canis Canem Edit was the reason for this boycott?
Comment: GI Newsletter says it puts its editorials online on Friday afternoon, so I'll add a link when I get one.
