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[ EEPI-Discuss ] Video game crackdown after "Grand Theft Auto" sex content fiasco?


   http://www.carthagepress.com/articles/2005/07/21/apindex/hitech/d8bfv5uo1.txt

   SAN FRANCISCO - The video game industry's decision to give an
   adults-only rating to the best-selling "Grand Theft Auto: San
   Andreas" because of explicit sexual content could signal the start
   of a crackdown on raunchy games.

   ...

   Rockstar's parent company, New York-based Take Two Interactive
   Software Inc., acknowledged for the first time that the sex scenes
   were built into the retail version of the game. Company officials
   previously suggested that a modification created by outsiders added
   the scenes.

   ...

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@pfir.org or lauren@vortex.com or lauren@eepi.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR 
  - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, EEPI 
  - Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative - http://www.eepi.org
Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com
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