What a nasty article in the NY Post about Take2, publishers of the Grand Theft Auto series. Never mind that Take2's problems with the SEC are totally seperate from whatever games it publishes. Also, if Take2 went down, I would think the actual creators of the game, Rockstar Games, would have no problems finding a new publisher, seeing how successful the GTA franchise has been. And this author needs to familiarize himself with the concept of 'freedom of speech', like you know, you don't like it, don't buy it. And GTA wasn't created in a vaccum, there are other games [Postal 2 comes to mind] that are just as bad, not even considering other media, say movies. [Natural Born Killers]

People, this is insane. This is 10,000 times worse than the worst thing anybody thinks Michael Jackson ever did to a little boy - or than any lie the feds think Martha Stewart ever told them, or any line in any song that Bruce Springsteen ever sang that rankled a cop in the Meadowlands. And trust me when I tell you, Mr. Mayor, what Take-Two Interactive is blowing into your face every day is a whole lot worse than second-hand cigarette smoke.

Ah yes, dying of cancer from second hand smoke is so much more acceptable than an offensive video game. We have our prorities in order, don't we?

Wired says some Haitian civil rights group is sueing everybody involved with GTA:Vice City because it has the line "kill the Haitians" in it. This is a little more understandable, kinda stupid thing to put in a game. Even tho they meant the drug gang called the Haitians, you have to wonder what the hell they were thinking when they put that in there.

There was a mention of the NY Post article on Penny Arcade.

To begin, I have seen articles of greater erudition float to the top of my Alpha-Bits.

The next game in this series looks to be GTA4:Sin City to be released November 5, 2004. Ok, no more GTA stuff, I've never even played the damn game. But I've heard it's fun.