No longer do we all have to live in fear of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Take-Two Interactive took a huge stand and is filing a lawsuit against Jack Thompson. If you don’t know about Jack’s past, I’m not going to get into it; Google should help you with that.
Good old JT decided about a week ago he wanted to dip his feet back in the lawsuit pool with Take-Two, the publisher of the upcoming titles Manhunt 2 and Grand Theft Auto IV, because they’re “hyperviolent” and shouldn’t be sold to minors. Ummm, isn’t that the ESRB’s job? Not to mention the fact that gaming stores should be fully responsible, but they are pretty liberal with how they sell games.
JT wants to prevent the sales of these games completely, which is just ludacris. This is the reason Take-Two is filing a counter suit. Their main point of the website, which I highly agree with, is that preventing the sale of these games would violate Take-Two’s First Amendment rights. We can only hope, as gamers and people with brains, that JT’s case gets promptly shot down.
You can read all the legal mumbo-jumbo here.
