Tag archive: Bully

An Oklahoma legislator is proposing a 'what about the children?' bill (HB 2696) that aims to tax violent video games. Former schoolteacher and current Democratic member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, William T. Fourkiller, wants to levy an excise tax rate of one percent on the sale of violent video games; because these games supposedly spawn the obese bullies which plague our society. “Violent video games contribute to… Read More

Take-Two Interactive, the same publisher which brought the world the Grand Theft Auto franchise—and associated “Hot Coffee” controversy surrounding Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas—has a new game out today: Bully. Bully follows the character of 15 year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he tries to adjust to life at the fictional New England boarding school Bullworth Academy. Jimmy's been expelled from every school he's… Read More

Parents, educators, critics, civic leaders and others who have lamented and bemoaned possible purported links between video games and upswings in violence among today's youth got another knuckle sandwich to chew on from Take-Two Interactive's subsidiary Rockstar Games today: the company has announced it plans to launch its new game Bully this October, just time for the end-of-year buying season. Rockstar Games is the same… Read More