The ever reliable Sun tabloid newspaper combined with the reliably scandal-seeking Rockstar Games have managed to produce an ever horror inducing paedophile story complete with a shocked and disgusted gamer responding in... disgust and shock.

Yes, The Sun has discovered the littlelacysurprisepageant . com 'site' within GTA IV. This is the element of the game that refers to a beauty pageant but has been blocked with the in-game authorities. Visiting the 'site' also gives you a five-star wanted rating. The in-game URL itself simply links to Rockstar.

The idea is that the Liberty City authorities have taken note of the website, rated it as a paedophile site and have blocked it. Some regular attendees of child beauty pageants might, of course, be outraged that events in which pre-teen tots are made up to look like street-walkers and paraded for prize money could be perceived by video game makers as a little on the strange side.

The Sun finds one reader so totally shocked and outraged that even the concept of paedophilia could get mentioned in-game that he refuses to play GTA IV ever again. This is despite the fact that in-game this marks you out as a hyper-criminal and displays moral outrage in the guise of satire.

Social satire should, after all, have its limits otherwise it could actually achieve something that might upset the status quo. Frankly, the sheer bleakness of the Liberty City lifestyle fills us with more horror than the idea that visiting a fictional paedophile website should mark you out as a criminal. It would have been more of a surprise had the Housers not opted to include a hot-button topic such as this one.

You can see The Sun's take here.

See the appalling shocking site in the video below... and then go and report yourself.