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Introducing Mr. Yusuf Amir of Liberty City
Meet Yusuf Amir, who’s a successful businessman gangster and rival of Gay Tony. Yusuf enjoys dancing in his tightie-whities, but that’s not why this is NSFW. Huge F-bomb about 10 seconds in; it might rupture your chaste workplace speakers. Rockstar’s news release accompanying this video describes Amir as “The affable, cutthroat real estate and construction…
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Here We Go Again: 7-Year-Old Drives Car; GTA Blamed
In Utah last Sunday, young Preston Scarborough took the family sedan for a spin. Instant media sensation, of course. A Fox News anchor was bold enough to ask did teh Grand Theft Auto do it? In the video, which you may see here, Klint Anderson, a spokesman for the Weber County Sheriff’s Office, mentioned that…
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Rockstar Pretty Much Kiboshes the Idea of GTA Film
Speaking of movies, forget about seeing one based on Grand Theft Auto. The Los Angeles Times, examining Ubisoft’s and Microsoft’s entries into filmmaking, went asking why Rockstar hasn’t thought of the same thing. Turns out they have, and they didn’t like the mental image. Says Dan Houser, the Rockstar vice president: We don’t believe that…
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Criminal Lies About GTA; D.C. Radio Station Spreads It
You know how in Grand Theft Auto you can drive around swatting pedestrians with an open car door? Yes? No? Doesn’t matter, a teen headed to jail for doing that blamed it on the game. The prosecutor in the case of Nathan Hartley, convicted of “door-checking” two Maryland kids and sent to jail for 7…
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Kotaku Bureau of Weights & Measures Studies Fallout, Physics, Also Beer
About a year ago, you may recall, my brother and I attempted to derive the product of Pac-Man’s metabolic functions. In that spirit, Kotaku has now created its own Bureau of Weights & Measures. The Bureau’s mission: To needlessly expose the wide gulf between video game physics and the laws of the real world; to…
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Obama Maybe Not So Gamer Friendly After All
In a speech to the American Medical Association, President Obama listed video games as health concern — a challenge to Entertainment Software Administration president Mike Gallagher’s statement that the Obama administration was game-friendly. The Wall Street Journal has the full text of the speech, but there’s really only one part that even mentions video games:…
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‘Nine Games That Went Too Far’ Doesn’t Go Very Far Itself
Surprise, surprise. Of nine “games that went too far” named on a network news website, which is the only one gamers have actually, you know, played? Hint: It rhymes with “Schmand Schmeft Schmauto IV.” Here’s the list, truly representative of the worst of the worst that everyone is playing, compiled by ABC News in a…
By Owen Good
