The Gamechangers Page #6

I'm not sure how much longer I can

endure it.

If this is your will, Father, show me

a sign.

Stop me from hating them.

Give me the strength to not hate

them.

Hey, fella!

Move along, please!

Terry!

Have you seen the number of comments

we're getting back,

the RPG and San Andreas?

People love how they can adapt Carl.

Forget that.

Have you seen how many units we've

sold?

That's amazing. It is amazing.

Stop what you're doing, everybody!

Ping-pong competition.

Figures must be amazing cos it

does not get better than that!

Hoi. Hoi!

JP...

I f***ing love it!

It's the best animated movement I've

ever seen.

Well done, fella, it's ace.

It should be our next game.

Table tennis? Yeah.

Re-doing Pong? We'll do World

Championship Table Tennis.

We'll do the best, most exciting,

most authentic,

table tennis game that's ever been

made. Right!

What?

'You're incredible, you should get

paid for this.'

Come on, girl!

How did they get a hold of this?

Don't answer that. I'm serious.

This is going to get brutal.

It's had thousands of hits and it's

been on for two hours.

How the f*** did this get out

there?!

Who put this out there?

NO! Nobody answer your phones, OK?

Jesus!

'You're incredible, you

should get paid for this.'

They created this for an M-rated

game?

This is it, Ray.

This is proof that Sam Houser has

absolutely no regard for the law,

or children's welfare.

I prayed for something like this.

Is this part of the game?

You don't think so.

If this scene was in the game,

Rockstar would have

highlighted it with us.

Are you sure about that? Yes.

So where'd it come from?

We're trying to find out.

Yeah, well we need to know because

this kind of thing confirms

everyone's worst fears about the

gaming industry.

This could undo years of lobbying.

If Rockstar misled you, I want to

know.

Patrick!

Pat, I assure you that sex scene is

not in the game.

It's a third party modification, made

by some hacker in their bedroom

and then put on YouTube.

Well, it's had over 20,000 hits now.

The integrity of our rating system

depends on customers trusting our judgment,

so we're going to investigate fully, OK?

And if there's been a violation,

we'll take appropriate action. OK,

Pat, there hasn't been a violation.

I'm telling you it was the modders.

We're confident that the ESRB

investigation will uphold the correct

rating of GTA:
San Andreas.

Was the hot copy coding included on

the games disc?

The scene is the work of a group of

hackers or modders who've gone to

significant trouble to alter scenes

in the official version, in violation

of the user software agreement.

OK, thanks.

You've got to be f***ing kidding me.

Who's idea was that?

Shut up, Jamie. He usually knows

what he's doing.

Does he?! That we're blaming our

biggest fans?

Where's Sam?

Coming back from Edinburgh.

Sh*t!

Terry! What were you

f***ing thinking?

I'm trying to protect

the company, Sam,

while you were in Edinburgh.

By blaming the modders.

Sorry, but it's the most stupid PR

decision I've heard of in my life.

Sam?

F*** you.

They've sentenced Devin Moore

to death by lethal injection.

Ah, he's a victim, too.

You want me to...? I got it.

Hello?

Certainly. One moment, please.

It's Hillary Clinton, for you.

We're here from Blank Rome

to understand

the situation as best we can so we

can advise your owners, Take-Two,

and yourselves if necessary,

on any legal action you may be

likely to face as a result

of the so-called Hot Coffee scene

that's come to light.

Sure. I-I'm very happy to help.

Is the sex scene in the game, as

some people are saying? No, it's not.

Therefore Patrick Wildenborg, this

Dutch hacker, made it? He created it?

No. So where did it come from?

It's a scene that we

had created for the game

but then we didn't want to use. It's

not in the game. It was removed.

The scene would have prevented

the game getting an M rating.

Yeah, yeah, that's one reason, sure.

But also, I just didn't like it.

It didn't fit the vibe of the game.

The rendering was sh*t.

So, you know,

I said that we'd get rid of it.

You said, "Get rid of it,"

and it's not in the game.

So how did Patrick Wildenborg

come across it?

Well, it's hidden in the code,

so he hacked it.

So it's in the code.

Forgive me, the game is made up

of code, isn't it, on the disk? Yes.

So does it not therefore follow that

if it's in the code

it's in the game?

Well, no, it doesn't, it's a little

more complicated

than that, actually.

Explain.

The scene is in the code,

but the players can't access it.

But Wildenborg did. Well,

he shouldn't have done, should he?

What he did was illegal? It breached

the purchaser's license agreement?

It's not as simple as that.

Whatever the end user

agreement may say,

modders have a well-known history

of adapting Grand Theft Auto.

Don't they?

Er, sorry, did somebody offer you

a drink when you came in?

Do you want a tea or coffee

or anything? No, thank you. Mm-hm.

If you didn't want

the sex scene in the game,

why did you leave it there in the

code, where hackers could find it?

Why didn't you just remove it fully?

Well, Michelle,

because it is complicated to remove

something like that. It's hard.

If you fiddle with the code,

it can have a knock-on

effect on a lot of things

that are very hard to predict.

We were in the run-up to delivery.

It was too complicated for you

to remove this prohibited sex

scene from the game?

How many people do you employ?

You employ 983 people.

Last year, your company made

over 253 million.

But you're saying it was

too complicated to remove

a prohibited sex scene from the code

of the game, code that hackers are

not only allowed to enter but do so,

sometimes with Rockstar's blessing?

So, Sam, is it not true that

far from removing the sex scene,

you deliberately left it in a place

where you knew it was highly

likely to be found?

No.

No. OK? Absolutely not.

Please, I thought

you guys were on my side?

Let me assure you,

if the Feds prosecute you for this,

we're a picnic compared to

what you'll face in court.

Mr Thompson. Yes. Hello. Good day.

This way, please. Thank you.

Jack Thompson! Thank you so much

for coming to see us.

Thanks for asking me.

Please. Thank you.

The Senator's very interested

in what you've been

saying in the media

about violent video games.

As a parent and a politician,

Hillary's very

concerned about these games

that are being sold to our children.

Well, I'm delighted to hear that.

We may have different politics, but

I think this is a bipartisan issue.

In addition to the violence,

these recent revelations

about this so-called Hot Coffee

sex scene perfectly demonstrate

what little regard these game

designers, these Brits,

have for our federal laws

or the welfare of our children.

Yes, we are aware of that scene.

The Senator's keen to have

the House investigate the issue.

But more broadly, what scientific

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