"http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/04/1/13/18006955.cfm"http://www.herald
net.com/Stories/04/1/13/18006955.cfm
This is some combination of a celebration and an apology. First, the
celebration.
A week before Thanksgiving, The Herald printed my first column on
ultra-violent video games, and then put it on the Web site, HYPERLINK
"http://www.heraldnet.com/"www.heraldnet.com. The most important
reaction I saw came right after Thanksgiving through a Web site called
penny-arcade.com.
An unidentified writer wrote, "If you are like me, every time you see an
article like this one -- where the author claims that video games are
training our nation's youth to kill -- you get angry."
When readers clicked "this one," my column on video games popped up.
The article went on, "The media seems intent on perpetuating the myth
that gamers are ticking time bombs waiting to go off. I know for a fact
that gamers are good people. I have had the opportunity ... to meet
hundreds of you at conventions all over the country. We are just regular
people who happen to love video games."
"With that in mind," the article went on, "we have put together a little
something we like to call 'Child's Play.'" Penny-arcade created Child's
Play, a toy drive for the holidays, by joining with Amazon.com and
Children's Hospital in Seattle. "
-Gel
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