Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

Perhaps you remember the 1993 murder of 3-year-old Jamie Bulger, a little boy from the UK. Two eleven-year-olds took Jamie by the hand and led him out of a mall, over 2 miles across town, to some train tracks, where they tortured and murdered the child. Almost 40 people saw the boys along their route, and not one succeeded in stopping them. Oh, and the boys had previously tried to kidnap a 2-year-old. This awful tragedy has stuck in the minds of the public for more than 10 years.

In the PC game Law & Order II: Double or Nothing, the player attempts to solve a kidnapping. One of the clues is the real-life closed-circuit television image (shown above) of the boys leading Jamie Bulger away from the mall. Jamie Bulger’s mother only recently found out about the image being used in the game, and complained. Legacy Interactive (a US company) claims that the case was not widely publicized in the US, only in the UK, and they were unaware the image came from a real case. Why the team used Google Image Search (or similar) to find a kidnapping clue, rather than fabricating their own, is questionable – couldn’t they foresee copyright violations, if nothing else, by using images from the Internet?

The game has been pulled from shelves and will be re-released with the image removed, and current game owners can download a patch to remove the photograph.

via AdventureGamers