Dexter, please teach our sociopaths how to kill. New Dexter video game to be released.

Dexter follows Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood-spatter expert for the Miami Dade Police Department whose perfectly respectable persona hides a dark compulsion: HE IS A SERIAL KILLER MADE RESPECTABLE . He hunts down people who have escaped justice. (Questions: Who is he to decide who should be killed? Who will use his example to justify who they chose to kill in real life?)

Dexter, rated in the top four shows on television, is one of the most popular shows on SHOWTIME with a particular strong fan base among gamers. Marc Ecko of Entertainment Today announced it has entered into a production agreement with Showtime Networks to design a video game based on the Emmy and Golden Globe winning hit television series "Dexter".

When I learned of their intent to make a video game out of Dexter, I emailed Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, author of Stop Teaching Our Children To Kill, to see what he would have to say:

"The Dexter video game is truly sick. Not only have we turned a serial killer into a hero, but now the kids get to play Dexter in the video game. They are not just the passive viewer of Dexter's murders, they now actively inflict the crimes and are rewarded for it."

To learn more from Lt. Col. Grossman check out the Yello Dyno Memo: The Recipe for Making Kids Into Killers Part IV: Violent Behavior Is The Solution To Problems: The Video Game Tells Me So.

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Manhunt 2 Video Game: Lessons In How To Become A Sociopath

Have you been following The Yelly Dyno Memo Series, The Recipe for Making Kids Into Killers?, Monthly_memo_10_07.html

You will want to keep the kids in your life away from the "game" Manhunt. I also wonder about any adult who would want to play ManHunt? Not sure I'd want to count them as one of my friends.

At a press conference in San Francisco, Calif., James Steyer, CEO of the children's advocacy group Common Sense Media, called Manhunt 2, "one of the most horrifically violent games that we've ever seen. It features a variety of different executions and is really a very, very violent almost unwatchable game."

Manhunt 2 had previously been rated "Adults Only," for players 18 and older, which would marginalize the game since many major retailers refused to sell games with that rating. Rockstar made some tweaks to the game -- removing a graphic scene of castration, for instance, and received a new rating of M -- for players 17 and up -- paving the way to the big-box stores like Wal-Mart and Circuit City.

“The impact of the revisions on the bleakness and callousness of tone, or the essential nature of the gameplay, is clearly insufficient,” the BBFC wrote. “There has been a reduction in the visual detail in some of the 'execution kills,' but in others they retain their original visceral and casually sadistic nature.”

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