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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
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
Hope you all enjoyed the fairly relaxed featurette I posted earlier today, because it seems that the proverbial shit is continuing to hit the proverbial fan. I still can’t believe that this Hot Coffee fiasco has gotten so out of hand, drawing the attention of worldwide press, spelling trouble for the gaming community, becoming a platform for politicians, and losing
Boy howdy! It’s a make it or break it time for the GTA community as we anxiously wait to see what’s going to happen next. Will the patching of the game’s code cripple the thriving modification community? As a result of the Hot Coffee controversy, what’s going to happen to future installments of the Grand Theft Auto franchise? Nobody knows
There appears to be some confusion regarding the UK rating of GTA San Andreas. Many suggested that the recent re-rating from M to AO in the US would lead to a re-rating in the UK, but Roger Bennett, director general of ELSPA, has confirmed that the game will retain its 18+ rating for the foreseeable future. However, this may change.
The inevitable modding project for combining games from the GTA3 series into one using the San Andreas engine has taken off. A group producing a mod known as GTA:LVS aim upon merging Liberty City from GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas all into one, and then allowing the player to travel between each of these. Whilst the mod is still very much
