Games documentary’s claims “exaggerated”.
The friend of an alleged videogames addict who featured in Panorama’s recent documentary, Addicted To Games?, has hit out at the makers’ selective editing and “exaggerated view of games addiction and its causes”.
In a lengthy article published on This Is My Joystick, Trent Pyro (real name Tom Hubbard) explains how Panorama came to interview his friend, Joe Staley, whose obsession with Modern Warfare 2 was explicitly linked in the film to his dropping out of university and racking up huge debts.
“As a fledgling media professional… I felt that having them film at my house would be an interesting experience,” said Pyro. “They were amicable guys, if a little pushy… Little did I know how the whole thing would turn out.”