I hate this world.

Curran, Glasgow, UK

Don't think you can blame this on a video game, remember someone got stabbed at an Ikea opening not long back.

Unfortunatly their are some disturbed people out there with no sense of wrong or right.

Tom, Sheffield,

Every Time someone is hurt or killed, they always look at the media to pass the blame. People sue the game makers, the game developers did not make them buy and play the game, and if playing a game turns you into a murderer, then you have some mental problems.

JTLA, Cincinnati, USA

will just say that Daniel Colls comment should not be taken seriously. weapons killl, we all know. stop this nonsense about the games. what has the film industry done for 60 years or so??? i just ask

Lars Jonny Eliassen, oslo, Norway

I have been playing GTA since the very first time it came out in 1997 and i was 7 years old i know am under age but from 1997 to 2008 i have not broke any laws or killed or mugged anyone and as people have said time and time again muggings happen all the time so you cant blame a video games for THIS

Jason 18year old, Retford/nottinghamshire, england

weapons don't kill people...videogames do...

Daniel Coll, Oslo, Norway

It's a fully immersive environment interface....these games are sure getting realistic.

kevin, Lincoln, UK

Nice one Mark. Agree 100%. What about those people mugged for money - goes on all the time. There is as much violence in the news as any game. Perhaps someone should look at the link between watching the news and crime rates. Agree with Taff too, it's all about the drama.

Andre, glasgow,

Games don't cause people to become crimminals .
the muggers in these cases are obvisously criiminals who would mug people for money .
crime has been a round a lot longer than video games have, victorian London was full of muggers and serial killers but they didn't have movies or video games .

mark, manchester, England

AF - How does this prove the game is sick? It is a high demand item which is of limited stock. Just because this happened doesn't mean it has anything to do with the content. Just for the record, it is not sick, it's very entertaining. Don't trash things you obviously have no experience with

Gary Tahmasbi, London, England

AF - don't like it, don't buy it. It's not brain surgery.

John, London, UK

Well done Times. Finally a nod towards the increasingly crass violent hypersexualised and utterly pathetic nature of so-called 'entertainment' that suddenly noone can live without! Literally.

These games are sick and the violence around them proves it.

AF, London,

Why have a front page link proclaiming "the first victim"? What sensationalist rubbish! I expect better than that from a "quality" news source. He'd likely have been stabbed if in the line at that time waiting for doughnuts. There'll be enough idiots looking to attack this game, don't give them amo.

Taff, Newport, South Wales.

Blaming the game for this?? - shoddy sensationalism at best!!!

Bob, Aberdeen, UK