Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Announces Conclusion of ESRB Investigation

New York, NY – July 20, 2005 –Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) announced today that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) has changed the rating of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on all platforms from “Mature 17+” (M) to “Adults Only 18+” (AO) because of the so-called “hot coffee mod,” an unauthorized third party modification that alters the retail version of the game. Take-Two cooperated fully with the ESRB’s investigation.

Wow.. this is retarded. AO rating because of content that has to be ‘hacked’ to unlock, to make people have sex with their clothes on. I fully believe the ESRB shouldn’t have to hack a game to rate it fully. It deserved the M rating then, and deserves it now. They are releasing a patch so that the hot coffee mod cannot be accessed. Yeah.. I’m sure people are going to install a patch to disallow the mod.. Read the full PR here.