So, while the game producer contacted members of the press to ask for the brass knuckles back to be disposed of, mailing them to the Redwood Shores Calif.-based company may be itself a crime.
Brian Crecente, managing editor of video game news site Kotaku, is one reviewer who received the shiny, jaw-busting pugilist accessory. He hasn t received any package to return the item in, nor much in the way of explanation. We’re still waiting to hear back from EA on whether it would be legal to do so, he wrote in an email. The illegality of the promotion is certainly relevant to a game that celebrates mob violence.