• Daily Star Fails: Reports about GTA Rothbury, a game that doesn't exist
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[quote=Rockpapershotgun.com]UK newspaper The Daily Star apparently believes that if it’s on the internet, it’s real. Hence their being convinced that the next GTA game would be a document of Gateshead gunman Raoul Moat. No doubt a 4Chan or b3ta chucklester passed it onto them. Good work, chucklesters. The Star – not exactly the UK’s most first-rate paper at the best of times – has now pulled the story, following Twitter and MCV discovering, laughing, screaming and howling at its open idiocy and failure to do even the most basic form of fact checking. Fortunately, I thought to take a screengrab of the whole thing first. It’s below. WELL DONE THE DAILY STAR. Especially the bit where you went and deeply distressed one of the victim’s relatives by telling her about something that didn’t exist, because you didn’t make even a token effort to check that it did, in fact, exist. Do note the More ‘news’ below button at the bottom. Says it all, really.[/quote] [url="http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/07/21/daily-star-outs-gta-rothbury/"]Source.[/url] Screenshot of original story: [IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b196/Starmenclock/gtarbig.jpg[/IMG] Way to go Daily Star, way to go! [IMG]http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff32/evildrew81/scary%20stuff/Joker.gif[/IMG]
Oh no not another violent video game! This will inspire people to be just like him, and shoot themselves.
I guess they jumped the gun with that story.
I thought the next GTA was Manchester?
How fucking stupid can you even get [editline]07:33PM[/editline] I mean GOD DAMN.
Sounds like something the Daily Mail would do. [editline]07:36PM[/editline] After saying how cancerous it is.
Oh wow, thats so stupid. I bet many people have been fired for that.
its not fake I have a copy
Tabloids. Enough said.
The star has no common sense
[QUOTE=oldgregg;23520390]its not fake I have a copy[/QUOTE] Is it any good?
ahahahahaha this shit is too good to make up
Wait a minute, did the star make that picture or did they think that was the box-art?
[QUOTE=scotland1;23521214]Wait a minute, did the star make that picture or did they think that was the box-art?[/QUOTE] They thought it was the box-art.
[QUOTE=SuperLoz;23520362]Sounds like something the Daily Mail would do. [editline]07:36PM[/editline] After saying how cancerous it is.[/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTu7GLfrmUI[/media]
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;23521384]They thought it was the box-art.[/QUOTE] :roflolmao: I hate papers that have more pictures than words.
we need to make this game [editline]08:33PM[/editline] fire up the source SDK people [editline]08:34PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Comrade General;23521447][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTu7GLfrmUI[/media][/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI[/media]
[IMG]http://surreal-reality.net/images/funny/HA_HA_HA_OH_WOW.jpg[/IMG] fucking stupid cunts
UK papers have forgotten how to research thanks to the internet. They'll throw a shit story together based on a Facebook group with 55 members these days (which I [url=http://krat.co.uk/the-following-is-not-news/]had to write about out of the sheer failure of it all[/url]). Die soon Old Media, we're getting bored of you now.
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;23521384]They thought it was the box-art.[/QUOTE] Holy shit they're stupider than I thought.
[QUOTE=Rombishead;23520386]Oh wow, thats so stupid. I bet many people have been fired for that.[/QUOTE] Nobody, people that worked in the Daily Mail said they never did any research, the challenge was to get as many complaints as possible.
Reporting at it's finest.
[QUOTE=Rombishead;23520524]Is it any good?[/QUOTE] it's no vice city but it's ok
[img]http://cultsha.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gta-somalia.jpg[/img] [i]Quick! Tell the media![/i]
[QUOTE=SuperLoz;23520362]Sounds like something the Daily Mail would do. [editline]07:36PM[/editline] After saying how cancerous it is.[/QUOTE] And how it's the immigrants fault, both cancer and violence.
[QUOTE=rampageturke;23522174][img]http://cultsha.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gta-somalia.jpg[/img] [i]Quick! Tell the media![/i][/QUOTE] I would actually buy that.
The game's a got a shit plot. You kill yourself at the end after eating pizza with your friend.
[QUOTE=Pandemix;23523337]I would actually buy that.[/QUOTE] Same.
Pfft, that's not even the best fake box-art out there. There is so much better they could have picked up.
The first video show The Mail scaremongering. I have a problem with the second video however. Some of the front pages are quite good, but the DM is so up itself no one looks into them.
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