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== Controversies ==

== Controversies ==

=== The Jack Thompson Affair ===

=== The Jack Thompson Affair ===

In a letter (October, 2005) to ESA President Doug Lowenstein, lawyer [[Jack Thompson]] offered a $10,000 donation to the charity-of-choice of one Paul Eibler if any video-game publisher would create a game in which an aggrieved parent, who had lost his son to a violent attack by a video-game player, would kill several attendees at the E3 Summit in revenge. Someone actually did create such a game, and Thompson refused to pay the reward, saying that his suggestion was clearly satire and never sincerely meant. The two creators of the [[Penny Arcade]] Web comic, Mike Kralhulik and Jerry Holkins, announced a donation of $10,000 to the ESA Foundation in response--though whether they actually made that donation, or merely said they did, would not be determinable through the examination of any readily available public records.<ref>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/10/17</ref> <ref>http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2005/11/69404</ref>

In a letter (October, 2005) to ESA President Doug Lowenstein, lawyer [[Jack Thompson]] offered a $10,000 donation to the charity-of-choice of one Paul Eibler (whose company publishes the especially violent video game titled ''Grand Theft Auto'') if any video-game publisher would create a game in which an aggrieved parent, who had lost his son to a violent attack by a video-game player, would kill several attendees at the E3 Summit in revenge. Someone actually did create such a game, and Thompson refused to pay the reward, saying that his suggestion was clearly satire and never sincerely meant. The two creators of the [[Penny Arcade]] Web comic, Mike Kralhulik and Jerry Holkins, announced a donation of $10,000 to the ESA Foundation in response--though whether they actually made that donation, or merely said they did, would not be determinable through the examination of any readily available public records.<ref>http://www.penny-arcade.com/2005/10/17</ref> <ref>http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/news/2005/11/69404</ref>

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