TECHNOLOGY NEWS: Finnish website removes kindergarten killer game

AN online game in which players roam a school and kill kindergarten students with a shotgun has been pulled from a Finnish children's gaming site one week after the country's worst school shooting.
"We have removed pages from our site that are not necessarily appropriate for younger family members," lastenpelit.fi said in a statement on its website.
The game, Kindergarten Killer, can still be found widely on the internet. The group that made it, ZSOA or Zombie Slaughter Owns All, is responsible for another violent animation, Violenza Estrema.
In defence of the earlier movie, one of the ZSOA members posted a statement defending their work.
"What people don't understand is that this is simply art inspired by real life happenings," the statement said.
"You don't understand our use of irony to condemn violence in society. (We) are not violent, psychotic people we just put our ideas into a flash movie."
Matti Saari, 22, last week killed 10 people at a vocational school in Kauhajoki, Finland, in the country's second school shooting in less than a year. Saari prefaced his rampage with boastful video clips on websites such as YouTube.
Finnish student Pekka-Eric Auvinen did the same before shooting six fellow students, the school nurse and the principal to death at Jokela high school last November.
Both Saari and Auvinen shot themselves following their rampages and died later from their injuries.