Egads! I was going to give Dr. Phil the benefit of the doubt until after it aired, but if what Jack Thompson says is true, I'm highly doubtful now that Dr. Phil's videogame episode is going to be worth much. At first he wanted to tackle something as potentially serious as videogame violence, but now it seems like it's just going to be an episode about MMO addiction. Yeah, like we haven't heard the same thing said about that now. Take our advice, and just watch the World of Warcraft inspired episode of South Park instead.

From the article:

Yesterday, GamePolitics reported that popular TV shrink Dr. Phil was planning to tape a video game violence episode, featuring a mysterious “game violence specialist” later this week.

Anti-game attorney Jack Thompson subsequently posted a comment to the story, claiming that he was initially invited to be a guest on the program:

Dr. Phil’s people called me last week, and at that point they were going to take the show in the direction of video game violence. They indicated they wanted me on the show.

I got a call yesterday, and they decided to take the show in a different direction, with the focus on role-playing game addiction. They have a girl who has that problem.

Look, I’m giving you the straight scoop here… Dr. Phil’s people were very nice, very professional, and quite enthusiastic. Of course, Dr. Phil was spot-on after V-Tech…

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com