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Remember Hot Coffee? Sure you do. It's the example we gamers like to hysterically shriek about any time we perceive the grim spectre of censorship swooping down upon our preferred media. It singlehandedly illustrates that everyone in the country except us — the gaming elite, the enlightened few — are sexually repressed prudes.
Anyway, after Rockstar accidentally got an interactive, thrust-by-thrust sex game in San Andreas, the FTC promised the concerned that they'd "look into it." And now, one year later, 1UP is promising that a report on whether or not Rockstar deceived the ESRB is expected soon.
Let's hope common sense prevails. Although there is a valid point that Rockstar's Hot Coffee mini-game went beyond titillation into quasi-pornography, the fact remains that it is a mod and companies should not be forced to disclose to the rating boards every asset in a game that some intrepid hacker may be able to fish out of the source. Although I have to admit, the fallout from Hot Coffee was good for me, as a gamer: it got Rockstar to release a second version of the PS2 game with that stupid bugged Zero mission
We'll let you know when the report from a bunch of career hypocrties comes in.
