Edit: This rumor has been debunked

Link: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9085&Itemid=53

What do you know: besides the fact that FOX News is "stuffed with morons" (I quoted Jon Stewart on that), they also have the super-natural capacity to...erm, influence other people:D.

Following FOX's report that BioWare's Mass Effect game is actually a porno-flick, a lot of gamers and gaming-involved journalists slammed the TV channel's review of the game, and, believe it or not, even infamous anti-violent games lawyer Jack Thompson agreed that FOX was way off line.

Apparently, US retailer Target is either too scared or has the same experience in gaming as Cooper Lawrence, since they've begun pulling Mass Effect off shelves. What's even more absurd is that the game is actually in stock, but Target employees are not allowed to sell it...

Want more of this? I got more of this! Sex-stuffed titles like "Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laudae" or "Playboy the Mansion" are still on Target's shelves, of course situated in the proximity of The Bible Game... And they're at the discount section...

Talk about mass(ive) (d)effect, eh?

Link: http://www.playfuls.com/news_12250_FOX_Effect_Target_pulling_Mass_Effect_off_the_shelves.html

Well the funny thing is the timing. They do this MONTHS after release and after the big christmas sales. So they got the vast majority of sales already...

Target is a media whore anyway, I think Mass Effect will probably sell even better with this publicity.

They doing it because of the bad publicity the game got. They want every one to think they have a good rep, so they removed it. The other games are less well known, and are unlikely to get bad press over them.

well...maybe ME should have been rated AO to avoid all this controversy

@darconi, your right but with Fox bringing this up I think people who wouldn't normally buy it will just to see why fox says it's porn.

 Most games do; look at resistance and the whole church fiasco, or pretty much all the GTA's. Negative publicity are good for sales at the end of the day.

 Still, this is ridiculous. Target are idiots.

Hah, can you woopie with me and your wee, wee. lol. I almost fell out my chair on that one!

Wow. This is ridiculous. You should not pull a game like Mass Effect out. It has very little objectionable material compared to other games they sell, like Grand Theft Auto or Gears of War.
Plus, censorship is horrible. You shouldn't decide not to sell something because of this.

I wonder if Target will get smashed by gamers the way FOX did.