Jack Thompson has filed a Plaintiff’s motion for leave to amend complaint with the U.S. District Court in Florida. In the latest complaint, Thompson accuses Dennis McCauley of GamePolitics and its parent company, the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA), for assisting video game industry “…retailers and others who seek the continued distribution of Mature-rated video games more »

When all the hoopla about Manhunt 2 was flying around I started noticing the movies in my local Walmart. Walmart, as you probably know, does not sell AO games. It also does not sell NC-17 movies. However, when I wander down the aisle of new releases (which happens to be just opposite the XBox 360 and PS3 shelves) about a third of the titles are prominently displayed as “Unrated.”

These unrated movies were very much rated when they were shown in the movie theater, usually with an “R.” The r to NR rating switch typically means that all the content left out of the theater release to get down to that coveted R rating was put back into the DVD release. These movies are unrated because if they were…

Game Politics has posted a list of gaming’s 10 biggest scandals including biggies like the recent Manhunt 2 AO rating and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ hot coffee mod. The list, which went up Monday (July 16, 2007) is definitely geared towards the modern era – you’ll find nothing pre-1993 (E.T., anyone? Or how about a little game called Custer’s Revenge? – but it’s quite amusing and interesting nonetheless.

Other highlights include …