Child's Play-Spawning Game Critic Praises, Apologizes

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday January 13, 2004 @08:03PM from the groveling-retractions-plus-plus dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out a HeraldNet editorial praising online comic Penny Arcade for their 'Child's Play' charity effort, in which the author apologizes for having written the original anti-gaming article which helped the Penny Arcade authors to their decision that "the media seems intent on perpetuating the myth that gamers are ticking time bombs just waiting to go off." The controversy eventually spawned the Child's Play charity fundraiser, which ended up raising almost $150,000 worth of toy/game-related donations for the Seattle Children's Hospital, and the HeraldNet columnist praises the "speed and power with which this network of gamers mobilized their effort on behalf of children and Children's Hospital." He also apologizes for his previous views, commenting: "Certainly many gamers read my column as a statement that I believe that they are bad people. For that impression I am sorry. I did not and do not believe that."

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Re: Why write it then? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-13 20:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I was hoping to get First Post!

Games, games, the more you loot the more you shoot!

My apologies to the GNAA for taking your post position. Not!
w00t by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-13 21:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

yeah! my hometown paper was linked on slashdot!