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Gaming's 10 Biggest Scandals
GamePolitics has a list of ten of the most well known gaming scandals to hit the games industry. Starting back in 1993 with the senate hearings on Night Trap (a game that arguably led to today's ESRB), the list catalogs some things that the companies responsible would probably just as soon forget. "Hot Coffee (2005) - needs no introduction. Cheeky Rockstar programmers left hidden sex animations (accidentally or otherwise) buried in the PS2 code of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Modders made sure they didn't stay buried for long. Rockstar's denials only made things worse. And then Hillary got involved ..." At the post's close they call for additional nominations, as it's definitely not an exhaustive list. They left off the ESRB's decision to re-rate Oblivion , for example. What 'scandalous' gaming events can you see rating with this topics?
Vice City helped set the stage.
Rockstar North, based in Scotland, enraged ethnic communities in Miami.
Rockstar came into the arena with a reputation for pushing the limits of public tolerance for violence in the M-rated game - and touched a raw nerve simply by being so far removed physically from the American inner city gang violence it exploits.
Hot Coffee could be unlocked in every version of GTA: San Andreas.
There is no way a voluntary ratings system could survive if AO content could be embedded in a game "accidentally-on-purpose" and later exposed through some more or less trivial "mod."
Manhunt 2 seems to arrived as the window of opportunity is closing on the entire "torture porn" genre.
Just another reason to stick with GPL2. Unless you like looking like a pedophile.
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