He shook his head and tried to concentrate on the game he was working on. It was a first-person shooter game, one of the most violent that he’d designed so far. He was actually wondering if he’d maybe gone too far, but the focus groups had come back with more positive results than he’d expected. It seemed everyone had a little bit of vigilante in them. Who knew?

The premise of the game was that the player had to hunt down and kill as many sick, twisted criminals as they could ...