GTA 'Hot Coffee' Case Settled for $20 Million
Hot Coffee costed $20 million.
There's no debate that the Grand Theft Auto video game series has always been one surrounded by controversy, but there has been no more questionable time in the franchise's history other than during the "Hot Coffee" incident related to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
In both the PC and PlayStation 2 versions of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas was locked content which contained sexually explicit material. While the content was hidden and not a part of the regular game, it could be exposed by modifying several files – something easily done on the PC version. PlayStation 2 version could also have its "Hot Coffee" content unlocked, but it could only be done so using a, unauthorized third party peripheral.
Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series, faced criticism and lawsuits. The entire saga came to a close yesterday as the company reached an agreement in principle to settle a class action for an aggregate payment of $20,115,000.
$15,200,000 of that sum will be paid by the Take-Two Interactive's insurance carriers, and $4,915,000 will be paid by the company itself.
"We are pleased to have reached this settlement, which represents another important step forward for the Company," said Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two.
Now with that out of the way, roll on the Ballad of Gay Tony!

Whats even harder to believe is that we here in the US have allowed lawyers to take over our country. They are in both our legislative branch and our executive branch.
All the time it took for this case to come to fruition could have been used for some better purpose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_San_Andreas#Sales
Notice how much better "Hot coffee cost $20M" sounds. Now, some technical points in English do result in sentences which do not sound correct but are regardless. This is *not* one of those cases -- costed is an archaic word which deals with finding the cost of something.
Im not going to lie... i looked at "costed" for a while as well, It just seems wrong.
I think it is proper, in this situation the sentence is referring to monies which were previously spent = Costed, not cost.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/costed
I dunno... Math is my strong subject
I spent my Monies.
Its weird, no one uses it.. but it is correct.
Whats even harder to believe is that we here in the US have allowed lawyers to take over our country. They are in both our legislative branch and our executive branch.
All the time it took for this case to come to fruition could have been used for some better purpose.
As an aside, "drunk" is also incorrect in the example given above, and "monies" is, at minimum, an awkward choice ("money" is correct there).
probably was part of the game but scraped to get the proper rating of M or w.e
For the people who jumped on a fast dollar don't bitch when you pay more for games cause you ripp the company that worked their ass off to make a game.. (FOR ADULTS!!!!!!!
I could not argee with you more. I what don't understand is (or maybe their lawyers are too lazy/smart enough to point this out) how is this not a violation to DMCA or DRM. The content was locked away so the only way to access it was to circumvent their protective measures. Doesn't that violate DMCA or DRM? Isn't that what people are being put in jail for? Now, follow me for a second, the only to access the content was to perform an "illegal" action. Shouldn't they company be protected since the way to access is technically illegal. Look at a can of air fresher. On it, it states that it is illegal to use it in a way that is not described on the can. If you use it to get high, you can't sue the company because you used it in an illegal manner. Isn't there a similarity here?
Disclaimer:
I do not endorse or approve of DMCA or DRM.
It'll be in the EULA from now on, I'm sure....