Thompson The Untouchable News

Always one to ensure that his psychotic drivel is never far from the pages of gaming journals, US lawyer Jack Thompson has once again surfaced like a whale catching its breath. In an article with NetJak, the infamous lawyer has likened himself to 1930s Al Capone catcher Eliot Ness commenting, "Eliot Ness didn't go after the small-time criminals. Eliot Ness went after Al Capone. Actually, I must offer my apologies to Al Capone. He only targeted adults, corrupt adults with his crimes. Capone never went after minors."

Since most of his problems with the videogames industry lay with Take-Two Interactive, it's a fair assumption to make that in his eyes at least, T2 is ol'Scarface himself. Repeating a move that he made against Time Warner back in the 1990s, Thomspon has recently become a shareholder of Take-Two Interactive, where he hopes to raise his various issues with the upper echelons of management to the other shareholders.

Later in the interview, Thompson is asked whether he would refrain from taking action against T2 if they told retailers not to sell to minors. Stating that he would drop legal action if the company stopped marketing mature games to children, Thompson did comment that he would still have an issue with mature games on moral ground (which is anybody's prerogative - I don't like BigMacs, but I wouldn't stop kids from going to McDonalds.)

What Mr Thompson fails to see is that the issue doesn't lie with game developers or publishers - instead US law should be such that minors are refrained from buying mature titles in the first place.

Ending by commenting that he found videogaming to be 'masturbatory', TVG would like to query if that was the case for offline gaming, does playing Xbox Live mean you're participating in an orgy?

No doubt we'll hear more from Jack Thompson soon enough...