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Boarding School Video Game Expected This Holiday Season
A new video game, by Rockstar Games, named Bully will be on the shelves this holiday season. Why does this matter? Because Bully allows the user the become part of a virtual boarding school environment. Since Rockstar is best known as the makers of Grand Theft Auto - the highly controversial and criticized game that features violence and sex - parents and executives within the gaming industry worried that Bully would encourage players to become bullies themselves. Fortunately, players take on the role of a new 15-year-old boarding school student who must learn to navigate between the various cliques and groups at school while avoiding getting into trouble with the bullies and even standing up to them every once in a while. Read more from the
NY Times.
posted by ByParents-forParents at 4:32 PM
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