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GamePolitics.com, the gaming news supersite that deals with the delicate relationship between the videogame community and the political world, has been in a flurry of GTA mania lately. It’s not surprising, of course – the Hot Coffee controversy has brought both sides out swinging. If (for some reason) you don’t have these guys bookmarked, here’s a rundown of today’s top
Check out the BBC’s latest piece about the ESRB/Hot Coffee fiasco, written by our very own illspirit. “It’s also worth mentioning that nearly everyone in the GTA3/Vice City/San Andreas mod scene have purchased each title twice. Each of those three games was released in the month of October for the PlayStation 2, with the PC version following in May or June of the
The GTAGarage and GTATools.com are proud to announce the creation and release of the first GTAGarage program, this program will make the distribution and creation of CAR modifications easier than ever before. The program creates CAR packages for your custom made cars complete with all data needed for installing the car and checks for the need of Dmagic1 wheel mod
Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification have revoked GTA: San Andreas’s current rating as a result of the Hot Coffee modification. Originally the game had the classification MA15+, therefore it could only be sold to those over the age of 15. The game is now banned in Australia from being sold, rented or advertised. The board have stated that
On Tuesday we reported that the FTC have launched an investigation into advertising claims made for GTA San Andreas, now it has emerged that a granny is filing a lawsuit in the southern district of New York after she bought the “M” rated game for her teenage grandson. “The plaintiff, Florence Cohen, claims in her lawsuit that she purchased the
Sounds fancy, hmm? Take-2 have announced that staff from the FTC’s division of advertising practices have launched an investigation into advertising claims made for GTA San Andreas. Rockstar Games and Take Two Interactive regret that consumers may have been exposed to content that was not intended to be accessible in the playable version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The
After recent statments from the ESRB stating they wish to see modding for all games stopped, some of us decided it would be a good idea to defend ourselves from the whole “modders are evil” myth they are perpetuating. Namely that we somehow made something so shocking and offensive with Hot Coffee that it undermines their whole rating system, even
Popular UK magazine “Games TM” is claiming that Rockstar have confirmed Liberty City Stories’ release date to be October of this year. Rockstar has confirmed that PSP title GTA: Liberty City Stories will arrive in October, shortly after Sony’s handheld’s European launch. Returning to GTA III’s Liberty City, players control Toni Cipriani, a character in GTA III. Cipriani will be voiced by
After the last two weeks of controversy and confusion regarding the rating and contents of video games, lots of you have been left asking the question “how do the ratings work?” Well, it’s really not an easy question to answer, as it most likely involves esoteric astrology rituals unknown to most and/or super computers running advanced chaos mathematics algorithms to
NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: It seems that good ol’ Jack is on a power trip. After sniffing the crotch of victory in his crusade against Grand Theft Auto, he’s now set his sights on a new target: the Sims. Ho. This is gold. Jeff Brown, vice president of corporate communications at EA, in response to the accusations, told GameSpot, “This is
