We reported on this story earlier, where Cooper Lawrence went on Fox News, bashed Mass Effect without even playing or experiencing the content in question, and then found her Amazon book pages being riddled with bad reviews from irate gamers, only doing to her what she did to them. She has come out and apologized in a half-sorted way, but based on things she are saying, it seems she regrets more than her money is being affected by what she said rather than actually feeling bad for doing something wrong.

From the article:

Stephen Totilo at MTV News has new comments from self-help author Cooper Lawrence, who likely needs no introduction to gamers following 10 days of nonstop coverage of the Fox News / Mass Effect debacle.

Lawrence’s remarks, issued in a statement to MTV, were mostly conciliatory, although she dug her heels in on a couple of points:

In hindsight, I would have liked to have had the opportunity to play this game before appearing on the program. As a developmental-psychology expert, I was asked to appear on this particular show to discuss the broader issue of video games and their impact on developing adolescents, not as an expert on ‘Mass Effect…’

I firmly stand by the research I cited that violence and sexual content in video games has a desensitizing effect on young developing minds.

Lawrence also criticized gamers’ guerrilla use of Amazon.com’s review feature to trash her book:

I believe that the customer-review feature on Amazon.com is not the appropriate forum to discuss an unrelated news segment. I appeared on a news program that provides an opportunity for debate on topics that have been previously covered by the media. Amazon’s customer-reviews feature functions as a platform to review a product sold on their site, in this case my book, the topic of which does not relate to video games and/or ‘Mass Effect.’

Read the full article over at gamepolitics.com