One more thing, about those jumping on the videogame violence bandwagon.
The Taser Foundation is now also protesting a game that will be published by Eidos, called 25 to Life, after Senator Charles Schumer and Nancy Grace criticized it publicly earlier, giving this game entirely more publicity than it deserves. Probably something Eidos never dreamed of.
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=59705
Now this isn't a prediction that the game will suck, although it probably will, if Eidos' latest efforts are an indication (think Tomb Raider), especially since the game wasn't really so anticipated earlier. I don't claim to know the plot of the game because I never did hear about it before it came under fire, but I don't see anything in what's being criticized in the game that hasn't been done before in other games, particularly GTA.
Now granted these other games also came under a lot of flak, but what do public figures want besides a mature rating slapped on the cover? Doesn't demanding that retailers don't carry the game at all violate some sort of free speech doctrine? Why isn't it enough that a game gets a Mature rating, but it's okay for a movie to have nudity or extreme violence if its simultaneously rated above 18, but is very easy to find and get into, and is available in all mainstream cinemas? Unlike an AO game that's hidden from the public. Seems to me the retailers should be getting the flak for selling mature games to minors, and not developers or publishers for putting out games that have what these people deem excessive violence.