We’ve all read the ‘Halo made me shoot my neighbour’ or ‘GTA made me steal cars’ headlines, but here’s a doozy. Russia Today television news network has suggested that a popular ‘U.S.-made consumer videogame’ may have influenced the Jan. 24 suicide bombing attack on Domodedovo International Airport that killed 35 people and injured 180.
RT said the attack resembled scenes from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 [you know the scene] that was previously labelled as controversial. Furthermore a leading terrorism expert from Washington was interviewed by the Russian news network and said terrorists might have used the game for training.
Walid Phares, director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has reportedly also called the possible links between the game and real life “troubling.”
Russia’s legislature, the State Duma, had criticized the game for depicting Russia as a sponsor of terrorism when it was released in 2009, and banned it.
