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> Besides addressing carjacking, the bill also changes the definition of a “violent video game” to one in which players “control a character within the video game that is encouraged to perpetuate human-on-human violence in which the player kills or otherwise causes serious physical or psychological harm to another human or an animal.”

Unless I'm totally misreading that, it sounds like GTA isn't even the tip of the iceberg. That's... a lot of games?

I mean, besides all the obvious (every FPS, arguably many RTSs, etc) I'm pretty sure this would even ban Minecraft?



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