Rockstar Games have made a u-turn from their earlier position and are now admitting that the sex scenes found in GTA: San Andreas were indeed created by Rockstar programmers. The company had rather sneakily blamed the content on the creator of the Hot Coffee mod when the ESRB were investigating the game.
The modder in question insisted from the start that the content was Rockstar's, and eventually the ESRB punished the company by handing the game an Adult Only rating, which is expected to seriously impact sales:
[Rockstar's parent company]Take-Two spokesman Jim Ankner acknowledged in an Associated Press interview that the questioned scenes were created by Rockstar programmers. "The editing and finalization of any game is a complicated task and it's not uncommon for unused and unfinished content to remain on the disc," he said.
Rockstar Admits Sex Scenes Were Built Into Game
Modder: "the scriptcode, the models, the animations and the dialogs by the original voice-actors were all created by RockStar"
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Take-Two press release announcing ratings change
id CEO voices concerns over Hot Coffee
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Interview With Assemblyman At Centre of GTA Sex Mod Row (16 July)
Question: What can you do to "hot coffee"?
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