In perhaps the most extreme case of stupidity in the media’s history of game hating, British tabloid newspaper Daily Star has had to pay out ‘substantial’ damages to Rockstar Games in apology for an ‘exposé’ on a non-existent Grand Theft Auto title based on the recent murders of British killer Raoul Moat. Supposedly entitled ‘Grand Theft Auto: Rothbury‘ after the small English town where the crimes were committed in July, Daily Star attacked Rockstar Games as “questionable idiots” who were exploiting other people’s misery for their own financial gain. What was their evidence? A Photoshopped package shot the author picked up in a forum.
