Tag: Rockstar Games
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Rockstar Films trademark suggest GTA and Red Dead Redemption movies are due
A recently uncovered trademark filing for Rockstar Films suggests that movie adaptations of Rockstar Games' biggest hits, including Grand Theft Auto, Red Dead Redemption and LA Noire, may be making their way to the silver screen. Though a trademark for…
Rockstar pulling the trigger on Red Dead Redemption cheats tomorrow
The real Wild West may have found a place for the good, bad and ugly of frontier society, but it looks as though only law-abiding cowboys are accepted on Rockstar's servers for Red Dead Redemption multiplayer sessions. As of…
Red Dead Redemption – Review
Name: Red Dead Redemption Genre: 3rd person open-world adventure Platform: Xbox 360 (reviewed), PS3 Price: £34.99 (Amazon) The sun bears down on a dusty, scorched town, the only island of habitation for miles in a sea of sand and…
Opinion: Manhunt 2's release will kill the current video games classifications
Jonathan Weinberg writes…
It’s a row that’s been rolling on for far too long. It’s a row that does nothing to help the perception of gaming among wider society. And it’s a row that is going to run and run for quite some time yet.
Rockstar has now finally overturned a ban that meant it was unable to release Manhunt 2 in the UK. But while that’s good news for the firm, for gaming itself, this whole bloody saga is just another nail in the coffin of gaming.
The media is already far too focused on the negatives – the violence, the calls to ban so-called “killer games” and the conflicts over having a voluntary code to provide an age rating for the majority of titles.
Occasionally a positive story will slip through, like the OAPs playing Wii to keep in shape, but on the whole, games are treated with far more disdain than rap music and horror movies, both of which have had their fare share of criticism in the past….
Opinion: Thinking Manhunt 2 should be banned DOESN'T make you a reactionary idiot
Stuart Dredge writes…
The British Board of Film Classification’s recent decision to Manhunt 2 banned in the UK for “sustained and cumulative casual sadism”“>refuse a certificate for Manhunt 2 – thus banning it from sale in the UK – has caused a predictably huge uproar among gamers and the mainstream media.
Manhunt 2 banned in the UK for "sustained and cumulative casual sadism"
Bad news if you were looking forward to some happy nights dismembering strangers in Rockstar Games’ Manhunt 2. It’s been refused a certificate by the British Board of Film Classification, meaning the game can’t be legally sold anywhere in the UK. And crikey, the BBFC hasn’t pulled any punches in its explanation of why.
If Microsoft buys Take Two, could PS3 lose Grand Theft Auto?
Okay, this is just speculation right now, but Microsoft is reportedly considering an acquisition of troubled publisher Take Two. That’s the same Take Two that owns Rockstar Games, which develops the Grand Theft Auto series.
