Fallout 3 image mistaken for terrorist propaganda

by Ryan Casey - 2008/05/30 5:54pm

Okay, so video games don't exactly have the most pleasant history. In fact, it's very hard not to spot some form of anti-game news article in a daily newspapers nowadays either. But to be linked with terrorism, surely that's crazy? Apparently not, according to the UK's Daily Mail.

A screenshot, displaying a post-attack America, has been mistaken for terrorist propaganda by countless newspapers worldwide, when in fact it's nothing but a mere Fallout 3 screenshot. Oops.

Apparently, the image was found floating around a forum where terrorists were known to lurk, and the sight of it got a few people, who clearly weren't followers of Bethesda's upcoming post-apocalyptic RPG, rushing to the press and publishing it for the public to get all worried about.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1022840/Al-Qaedas-terrifying-vision-devastated-America-wake-nuclear-attack.html