Take Two and Rockstar have once again received negative press for one of their videogames. Senators with nothing better to do (we’re still in Iraq, right?) and anti-gaming activists are up in arms about Rockstar’s Manhunt 2 game for Wii, PS2, and PSP. Apparently, it has been confirmed that hackers have found ways to get past the blurring and other distortion effects that basically filtered out all of the content that gave the game it’s original "Adults Only" rating.
The ESRB has come out and stated in a press release that they will not be changing the rating back to AO, since all of the game’s content (including the filtered parts) were submitted to the ESRB for review. Hacks have only been discovered in the PS2 and PSP versions of the game (by utilizing the third-party Codebreaker application).
So sorry Senators, for once the ESRB is growing some balls and sticking to it’s guns…for now at least. So by all means, go ahead and pick up your copy of Manhunt 2, hack away, and then hack away.
For more info on the subject, check out Mercury News.
Last week’s E For All convention out in Los Angeles marked a new chapter in the world of gaming. Last year, the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) was scaled down dramatically and pretty much closed it’s doors to everyone except for media personnel and industry big-wigs. Average Joes like you and I were forced to either travel all the way to Tokyo, Japan for TGS or stay glued to our computers and check out all of the third-party media and "awesome" text updates.
But what about those of us who like a more hands-on approach? What about those of us who dream of being immersed by awesome games that few have ever played, meeting the B-grade celebrities of the gaming world, and (most importantly) lots of amazing booth babes standing around pretending to be totally into what you’re saying and doing while raining tons of free swag upon you? What are we supposed to to?! Enter E For All: a four-day convention open to the public that provided all of these things and more. Despite a lot of media criticism, the convention actually did a pretty decent job for it’s first time around the block.
The E for All Expo in Los Angeles, California is drawing to a close today, and the Project Thursday crew was lucky enough to attend and check out some of the hot games coming out in the months ahead. One of these games really stood out of the crowd for me, as I’ve been anxiously waiting for the next Harmonix-crafted music game: Rock Band.
Both MTV and EA were at the Expo in full force, and invited all gamers to hop on stage and partake in what could be considered the best music/rhythm to date.
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