EDINBURGH-based games developer Rockstar has attacked censors for demanding changes to its new title Manhunt 2, branding them "unacceptable".
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"Despite the presence of a hack that can uncensor Manhunt 2, ESRB's Patricia Vance fully backs Rockstar, noting that they disclosed all pertinent content and complied with ESRB guidelines."
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has spoken of his desire to stop video game designers from enabling playable characters to use knives, following continued public concern over both rising knife crime and the effects of video games violence in the UK.
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"Because really, there hasn't been enough controversy surrounding this game already." There's no PSP Manhunt 2, so I'm putting it here.
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Despite the ESRB's decision to change Manhunt 2's initial rating from AO to M, Target stores apparently will not be selling the game in North America. A representative from Target's corporate office confirmed that the company made a decision to no longer sell Manhunt 2.
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A slight step-down from the previous iteration with the shoddy enemy AI, lower difficulty, and the censorship. "[A]s a whole, Manhunt 2 isn't the tour de force title that will grab your attention and keep you there like the first one did."
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Take-Two Interactive has confirmed that a former employee of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) has acknowledged his responsibility for the unauthorized online distribution of an unrated play-test version of Manhunt 2 submitted for the European PAL PlayStation 2 computer entertainment system.
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Manhunt 2 has now received a Mature rating for it's game, and will now be able to appear on the Wii, PS2, and PSP later this year. The game is scheduled for release on Oct. 31, 2007.
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A pretty standard "politician hops on video game violence as an issue" article. The interesting thing, I thought, was the assertion that 1/6th of Americans suffer from "serious mental illness". If I know 5 sane people, does that mean I'm the crazy one?
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A back-and-forth analysis of the controversial game, done by MTV News' Stephen Totilo and Newsweek's N'Gai Croal, including comparison of its controversy to other controversial media works (Natural Born Killers, Taxi Driver). Croal: "Unless they have good reason to believe that this game is an imminent threat to the public order, or that it will in and of itself incite adults to violence, [the BBFC and IFCO's] decision seems to me to be based on taste, and I will never believe in substituting anyone else's tastes for my own."
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