23-year-old stabbed in London for his copy of GTA V

The popularity of the latest game in the Grand Theft Auto series saw many a retail store decide to open at midnight last night. And gamers turned up in their thousands to purchase the game as soon as they could. However, not everyone made it home with their copy of GTA V, in fact one gamer ended up in hospital instead.

A 23-year-old living in London purchased the game from his local supermarket, but was soon after hit with a brick and thenstabbed. Whoever committed the crime took the game and left the man injured in the street. The police were called and thankfully the victim is now stable and recovering in hospital.

Although no one has been charged with the crime yet, the police have multiple suspects and hopefully will be able to identify the individual, or even the group, who carried it out. Injuring someone just to get hold of a new game is ludicrous, but clearly some people who can’t afford it will go to extremes to secure their copy.

Hopefully this isn’t held up as an example of video games causing real world violence. It could have just as easily been another high-profile product release and midnight opening, such as when certain smartphones or tablets launch, that kicked off the violence. In this case it just happened to be a game.

We wish the man a speedy recovery and access to a TV and PS3/Xbox 360 from his hospital bed to get some serious GTA Vgame time logged.