Ban Bully video game, activists say

This article is about Young anti-bullying activists have asked the federal and provincial governments to ban a video game linked to bullying. Katie Neu and Robert Frenette, who founded BullyingCanada.ca, wrote to the political leaders on Tuesday, the same day that Bully: Scholarship Edition was released. They wrote the letters "on behalf of all the victims of bullying," said Neu. Based on their research, the students believe that violent video games promote bullying at school, she said. The game, an updated version of Bully released in 2006, features a 15-year-old student at a boarding school who has to make his way in a new environment, where there are cliques and bullies jump students in the halls. "This is an angst-filled game, a light-hearted simulation of the horrors of high school ... there's no blood, no guns, no boosting of cars," Hilary Goldstein wrote in a review of the game on IGN.com in February. The player has to deal with the the groups at school, by diplomacy or fighting, and can even win kisses, from girls or boys, Goldstein wrote. I think that it's good that they made a game to say that bullying is around the world and we got to stop it as soon as possible.