Now, let’s not kid ourselves, gaming still gets a bad rap in a lot of the media.
ITV is one of those outlets that seems to have a something against gaming. So, I find it a bit strange that ITV recently used footage from ARMA II and passed it off as actual footage of an IRA attack from 1988.
http://youtu.be/h6r-kNct630
That’s pretty low and even lower once you realise that they used this footage in a documentary. The documentary itself is called ‘Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA’, if you want to go watch it.
Bohemia Interactive’s CEO, Marek Spanel, is as confused as we are. “Sometimes creativity and realism in our games lead into crazy results and this is one of such example,” he said to PC Gamer.
“I just briefly watched the entire documentary and I still can not believe it as it is overall [a] very serious and lengthy feature.”
Source: PC Gamer
skibadee
looks like they can not tell the difference between real life & games not us.
E8_BALL_
“removed by user.” I think someones’ legal team has been making enquiries.
Just when you thought you’d heard it all, unbelievable.
MayContainEvil
That someone would actually try this is absurd almost beyond words. That it actually made it to broadcast is even more so. I sincerely hope, for the sake of my sanity, that they get sued for a large stack of cash.
ron_mcphatty
Bloody hell. I plussed this thinking it would be in some way educational, it’s getting deleted now. Bad ITV! What would Trevor Macdonald say?