Only the Daily Star could make the New York Post look like the New York Times.
We’re a little late to this one, but last week that bastion of accurate reporting, the UK’s Daily Star, ran an article insinuating that Rockstar was making a Grand Theft Auto game based on the criminal actions committed earlier this month by ex-con Raoul Moat, who killed one and injured three across a six-day spree throughout the NorthEast UK.
GTA Rothbury, as the game was called by Star writer Jerry Lawton, contained a series of animated quotes from relatives of the victims, outraged by the thought of a game, book or movie based on the criminal’s exploits, as [URL=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=256635]reported up by CVG[/URL].
The story was eventually taken off the Star’s website entirely (since it was made up) and the newspaper issued an apology ([URL=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=257019]thanks again CVG[/URL]) stating: [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/07/26/daily-star-apologizes-fabricating-gta-story][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]
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