Chang, a University of Rochester graduate who moved with his family from Taiwan when he was 8, said he wanted to create a game with the kind of "urban edge" found in video games such as Grand Theft Auto, Palm games such as Dope Wars, and rap, a genre that often details violence and drugs. The woman said public relations officers were told not to answer their phones.ĭavid T. On Friday a woman at corporate headquarters who said she was the switchboard operator said officials had instructed her to send press inquiries to voice mail.
is a Philadelphia-based company that sells men's and women's clothing and shoes and apartment wares to the young adult market. The store has been selling the $32 game for about a month. On Friday, a manager at the Urban Outfitters on E Eighth Avenue who would not give his name for publication said company officials told him Friday they planned to stop carrying it. "What would be going through a young adult or teenager's mind if they're playing this game to win? The message that's being reinforced in the mind while you're playing, there's nothing good about it, there's nothing humorous about it." "It's really sick," Rouson said of the game. Petersburg chapter, plans to write the company and request it stop carrying the game. Petersburg and Hillsborough County chapters of the NAACP to demand the retailer stop selling it. The game, sold locally at Urban Outfitters in Ybor City, has prompted the presidents of the St.
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