Posted on 05/01/2011 8:13:34 AM PDT by Immerito
The controversial Dog Wars app has been renamed KG Dogfighting and is back up on the Android Marketplace. The site says it was updated Saturday two days after the head of the Los Angeles police union urged Google to permanently pull the virtual dogfighting game app from its phone app marketplace.
In the letter sent Thursday to Google Chief Executive Officer Larry Page, Los Angeles Police Protective League President Paul M. Weber urged Google "to do the right thing and ban this game permanently."
"The game teaches users how to breed, train, fight, medicate and kill virtual dogs," Weber wrote on behalf of the union's 9,900 rank-and-file members. "The entire concept is repulsive and sickening," Weber said, noting that the app simulates dogfighting, which is a felony offense in all 50 states.
The Dog Wars app for the Android smartphone encourages players to "Raise your dog to beat the best" and allows players to train a virtual pit bull to fight other virtual dogs and build street cred that "puts money in your pocket and lets you earn more in fights."
The company's website notes that the game player has a "gun for police raids and can inject the dog with steroids."
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I think that instead of banning the game, they should get people to understand that game on computers aren’t real.
Exactly. This is the same idiocy that claims violent computer games train people to be violent. Wrong. “Guns don’t kill people - people kill people.”
you know what, i want to write an app call The Pimp, go to schools to recruit your best whores, breeding is very important of course. in addition, you have daily quest to beat your whores, so that they don’t loose respect for you and such.
hmmm i think it’ll sell. you read it here first... if anyone copy this game idea, i’ll sue.
I’m currently developing a game that trains people to identify, track and eliminate dog fighters.
After shooting the dog you have to fight you're way back out to where you entered the house. Bonus points if you can shoot the dog without killing anyone else in the house before escaping.
We’ve become the Romans. Where are the barbarians? Oh, they’re playing videogames.
A Siberian tiger would work as well
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