You know, it's funny - I never played through Crimson Butterfly to the end. I have it, and I played a couple of hours worth, and I had a run around in all the different costumes (the goth lolita ones were so cute!), but then something else came along, and it just kind of faded into the background ... I really am going to have to finish it one of these days.

Ah, Manhunt. There's a ban on that game here because of the incident back in February. Yes, still. Yes, even though the game had nothing to do with the murder at all.

I am just now playing that game! Not as scary - well not yet but I am enjoying it.

OMG, you mean you didn't hear about that? Wow. Well, here's one of the original news stories:

www.citron.co.uk/news/news_247.html

It later turned out that Manhunt belonged to the victim, not the murderer, and that the boy had been killed because the older kid wanted drug money. Of course, this raised more questions than it answered - namely, how did a fourteen-year-old boy get a game that requires age verification to purchase, and what the hell were his parents doing?

If you do a Google search with the words "manhunt" and "pakeerah", you should find heaps of articles. There was a huge media frenzy over it at the time.

I live in Australia. Our games here don't actually have a restricted age classification. I think the Office of Film and Literature Classification is thinking of changing that, but as a result, there are some games that don't make it through here, and some games are censored. The last two GTA games have had features removed before they could go on sale in Australia.