GTA stabbing "nothing to do with GTA"

The so-called 'GTA stabbing' reported to have taken place outside a GameStation store in Croy🦂don, East London, had absolutely nothing to do with Grand Theft Auto, a GamesStation source has confirmed to GamesRadar.

Our🎶 source revealed that the account of a witness appeared to contradict the knee-jerk news published yesterday, which claimed the man stabbed was a member of the queue waiting for the st𒅌ore's midnight launch of GTA IV.

"The victim h🎃ad categorically not pre-ordered the game," our source told us, "and GameStation is confident that he was not a GameStation customer, neither was he a part of the queue outside🅰 the Croydon store".


(Source: Metro, Wednesday April 30, 2008)

), and the inci꧂dent is covered again in this morning's Metro newspaper, under the headline "GTA violence kicks off ...in queue for the game". This, according to our 🌼source, is most certainly not the case.


(Source: The Sun, Wednesday April 30, 2008)

In fact, according to our source, it seems that the stabbingincident itself did not even take place near the GameStation store, as reported by many news outlets, but nearly a quarter of a mile away in the area of East💮 Croydon Station.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left⭕ GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.