Grand Theft Auto should make great TV – but so would these gaming backstories

With the BBC planning a drama about the creators of Grand Theft Auto, here are some other big moments from video game history that would make gripping TV

So far, film and television writers have managed to completely overlook the games business, a $60bn a year creative industry that has produced 40 years of sex, drugs and intrigue. Well OK - mostly intrigue. But in April, however, we all discovered that the BBC is planning a drama about Grand Theft Auto publisher Rockstar and its legal face-offs with loose cannon lawyer Jack Thompson. There is considerable star power involved too, with Daniel Radcliffe set to play Rockstar co-founder Sam Houser and Bill Paxton lined up as anti-gamers campaigner, Thompson.

So now the lid has been prised from the Pandora's Box that is the games industry, what other juicy controversies could be mined for TV material? Here are eight candidates.