Step forward Jack Thompson, Miami-based lawyer and fervent critic of videogames, who has accused Rockstar of portraying him as a 'bisexual paedophile' and a 'sexual pervert', after the developer - which, judging by the radio stations that feature in GTA games, does a nice line in irony - placed a none-too-subtle hoax email on its new website for PSP game GTA: Liberty City Stories.
The spoof email that's riled Thompson appeared two days ago on the site, and comes addressed from from 'JT@CitizensUnitedNegatingTechnology'. In it, the imaginary author writes about how, 'The Internet is an unambiguous evil. The only things worse than the Internet are computer games and liberals.'
'Only last week,' it continues, 'I was using the Internet to look up some information for my 15 year old niece, who is a keen water skier and state wide sailor. Trust me when I say this - searching under the subject matter "Teenage girls water sports" is not for the faint hearted.'
It's hardly surprising that Thompson is a target for Rockstar's ire. After all, the lawyer recently led the outrage that followed the 'Hot Coffee' debacle, and has been a vocal critic of Rockstar's GTA franchise for some time now. True to form, he wasn't about to take Rockstar's latest dig lying down.
In an irate email to US site GamePolitics, Thompson wrote that, 'Take-Two/Rockstar has created and paid for an actual Internet website for the purpose of furthering the notion that its most abiding and most effective critic, Jack Thompson, is himself a sexual pervert. When you click on the fake email [on the Liberty City Stories site], you will find that JT (Jack Thompson) likes to surf the Internet for pictures depicting deviant sex acts by teenage girls.'
'Additionally,' harrumphs Thompson, 'There is an audio ad at the site featuring a man whose name is 'Jack', who is found naked by a mother in her son's room. Bisexual paedophile Jack Thompson is the combined message.'
Neither Thompson or Rockstar has commented on the latest session of 'handbags' since, but as soon as either does, we'll be there like the gossipy fishwives we are to deliver the scoop.
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