New Links: Top 10 Most Violent Video Games

I missed this - it's dated 23 Nov 04 - but it just HAS to get a post, it's so damn' ludicrous:

1. Doom 3
2. Grand Theft Auto: ?San Andreas"
3. Gunslinger Girls 2
4. Half Life 2
5. Halo 2
6. Hitman: Blood Money
7. Manhunt
8. Mortal Kombat
9. Postal 2
10. Shadow Heart

Reading the rest of the article and their rantings about violence towards women and minorities being bad (but towards straight white guys is fine, I conclude) then we must assume that their problem with Doom is that Hell Spawn are a) a minority and b) female. That Gunslinger Girls 2 is a major problem in the US because, being a relatively obscure Japanese import title, it's done incredible well to make #3. I've no idea how they know what Hitman: Blood Money will be like, since it's not released for a few months yet. And I think the same arguments that applied to Doom apply to Halo 2 ('cept they're aliens rather than hell spawn. But *female* aliens, obviously).

Go read the whole thing if you want to pull it apart, a lot of it is majorly weak. I particularly like how they cite video games systems in bedrooms (meaning content can't be monitored, presumably) as a problem for the industry -- and not the parents who allow kids to have them there.

Isn't it the job parents to... you know.. um... parent?

GAH!

EDIT: Since Bungers has been complaining, I've retroactively added a bunch of icons to some of today's posts. (And so, apparently, has someone else -- since when was 2004 retro?)