Starbucks’ prices look positively reasonable when you consider how much a little “Hot Coffee” cost Take-Two Interactive.

The Grand Theft Auto publisher announced on September 1, 2009, that it has reached a $20 million settlement with investors in the class-action lawsuit filed over the Hot Coffee scandal surrounding Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

The suit alleges that Take-Two was cash strapped before releasing the highly anticipated GTA sequel and rushed the game out the door knowing about the extreme sexual content. Take-Two didn’t help its case when it claimed the hidden sex scene was the work of hackers, when it was designers at GTA developer Rockstar Games who left the content “in” the game. The thing turned into a PR and financial nightmare for Take-Two pretty quickly, leading to a GTA: San Andreas recall and a nosedive in the company’s stock price.

In the five months since its release, the military first-person shooter Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has proven to be one of the best video games in recent memory. Since November 2007, Call of Duty 4 has sold more than 7 million units around the world, won of dozens of awards and (since early 2008) remained the number one game on Xbox Live. Now fans will have more reasons to stay online for another 5 months with the first expansion to the popular series.

On April 3, 2008, Activision and Infinity Ward will release an expansion pack titled Call of Duty 4: Game of the Year Edition (GOTYE). This new expansion won’t include any new additions or upgrades to the single-player game but instead will focus exclusively around four new multiplayer maps for…