As you may or may not know, Mass Effect's Facebook page was inundated with hatred after Ryan Lanza, the brother of Connecticut shooter Adam Lanza, who was falsely accused of the shooting, listed it as an interest on Facebook. Well, it turned out the shooting had nothing to do with him and so people no longer had a game to blame for the shooting.
The media wasn't prepared to just let a mass shooting go without being linked to games in some ridiculous way though, and so just such a way was found.
Yup, Adam Lanza played Starcraft in a tech club in school. That's their damning case against video games. He wasn't an Call of Duty addict. He didn't play Counterstrike for 10 hours a day. He played a futuristic strategy game where 2/3 of the units aren't even human and War Of The Worlds-esque alien tripods fry giant insects with lasers, in a school club. Nice one CNN, you've really got us now.
To make things even better, an 'expert' is brought in a via some program called 'Skpye' to confirm that "every major scientific society" agrees that video games cause violence. "Every major scientific society" never agree on anything, especially not an issue as complex as this.
All I can really say is this makes me glad I don't live in the US, because your news companies seem painfully incompetent at the best of times.
On a brighter note, I find the similarity between Dr Craig Anderson and a certain character from Starcraft somewhat amusing.