Release of &#39;Manhunt 2&#39; video game suspended amid outrage
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The makers of a violent video game set in an ayslum for the criminally insane have suspended its release after a howl of outrage from some European nations which have already banned &quot;Manhunt 2.&quot;
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Refuse to release game unless it gets a lower rating Both Sony and Nintendo have confirmed that they will not authorise the release of controversial video game Manhunt 2 on their games consoles - the PS2, PSP and the Wii - in the US.â¦
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British censors win the right to fight the release of video game Manhunt 2 in the High Court.
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British censors on Tuesday banned a video game for the first time in 10 years, rejecting U.S.-published "Manhunt 2" for what they described as an unrelenting focus on sadism and brutal slaying.
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A video game banned in Britain and Ireland and facing restricted sales in the United States due to its violent content was a fine piece of art, the game's publisher said on Wednesday.
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A month before the video game's scheduled release this coming Tuesday, illegal copies of the hot sci-fi action title "Halo 2" were already circulating on the Internet. It's had a lot of company lately.
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In a landmark decision representing the U.K.'s first video game ban since 1997, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has rejected Manhunt 2 for both PS2 and Wii, which now makes it illegal to sell the game within the borders of the country.
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A PC, PS2 and Xbox-based trivia game has been banned in the US after a teenager alleged that the title contains topless video pictures of her, used not only without her permission but filmed when she was a minor.
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The body count is high in two new video games, &quot;Halo 2&quot; and &quot;Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.&quot;. Those two hit games also are making casualties of their competition on the sales racks.
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An 'invasion of First Amendment rights', judge declares A Louisiana judge has declared that a proposed state ban on sales of violent video games to minors "violates free speech rights and cannot be enforced", Reuters reports.â¦
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A PC game produced by Scottish firm Traffic Games has come under fire from the family of former US president John F Kennedy for allowing gamers to play through his assassination as sniper Lee Harvey Oswald.
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New York - An internet video game that lets players kill John F Kennedy has been angrily condemned on its release on Monday - the 41st anniversary of the former president&#39;s assassination.
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Video gaming's most felonious franchise is back, and it's threatening to hijack the holidays. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the latest in a line that has sold 32 million games and sparked protests among anti-violence activists, arrives in stores this week.
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Take-Two Interactive Software said yesterday that it was suspending the release of Manhunt 2 because of a rating controversy in the United States and a ban in Britain and Ireland.
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A computer game which uses the CCTV image of James Bulger being led away to his death from a Merseyside shopping centre has been withdrawn from sale in the UK after being condemned by his mother as 'sick and hurtful'.
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Manhunt 2 won't be played on the Wii, PSP, or the PlayStation 2 unless the developer changes the content.
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The makers of "Manhunt 2" &#151; a violent video game that had been threatened with a sales-destroying adults-only rating &#151; will release a toned-down version in October.