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Rumours
Composer Mentions Bully 2 [Update]
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Rockstar released sandbox title Bully on the PlayStation 2 back in 2006 and later ported the title to the Xbox 360, Windows and the Nintendo Wii. Set in a school environment, the PS2 version sold 1.5 million copies. More »
Culture
You Led Me On! — Dating In Video Games
6:30PM AJ Glasser | I peruse columns on Sundays and today found myself cracking up over Emily Short’s GameSetWatch column, ‘Homer In Silicon’: Communicating Character. More »
Regulars
11:00AM David Wildgoose | For me, it was one of the last console generation’s finest hours. With Bully, Rockstar managed to focus the GTA formula inside a smaller, tighter environment while also benefitting from a fresh setting and plenty of humour. More »
Bargain Hunter: Bully For You
11:00AM David Wildgoose | For me, it was one of the last console generation’s finest hours. With Bully, Rockstar managed to focus the GTA formula inside a smaller, tighter environment while also benefitting from a fresh setting and plenty of humour. More »
News
Bully Ads Are A-OK With ASA
8:20AM Leigh Alexander | 31 complaints against a TV ad for Take-Two’s Bully: Scholarship Edition were dismissed by the Advertising Standards Authority. The complainants said that the ads “glorified and trivialised” bullying, but the ASA found that the ads themselves were not in violation of any standards. According to GamesIndustry, the ASA did find the game distasteful, but was not glorifying violence because of its “comic and exaggerated” nature: “Although many might find the name and content of the game to be in poor taste, the content of the ad was unlikely to cause serious or widespread offence”, it said. ASA dismisses Bully advertising complaints [GamesIndustry.biz] More »
Judge Says Jack Thompson Guilty Of Misconduct During GTA, Bully Trials
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | According to a report from GamePolitics, the judge who presided over Miami lawyer Jack Thompson’s Bar trial has recommended to the Florida Supreme Court that he be found guilty on 27 of 31 charges of professional misconduct. Of the 27 recommendations of guilt, twenty-one are from a suit related to Grand Theft Auto and four are from an attempt by Thompson to have Rockstar’s Bully declared a public nuisance. More »
Brazil Gets The Memo, Bans Bully
3:30PM Luke Plunkett | Judge Flavio Rabello has barred the sale of Bully in Brazil, following requests for its banning from a youth centre in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. State prosecutor Alcindo Bastos says the reason for the game’s banning stems from the fact “the aggravating factor is that everything in the game takes place inside a school”, which is apparently “not acceptable” considering how much fisticuffs feature in the game. Distributors and retailers have 30 days to comply with the order. Brazil judge bans ‘Bully’ [globeandmail] More »
Bully Patch Needs Patch?
2:08PM Luke Plunkett | Before I go on, we haven’t heard squat about this from any of you, but others have, so who knows. Commenters on Larry Hryb’s Microsoft blog have been complaining that the update intended to fix a bunch of serious issues with the 360 version of Bully instead leaves many of the game’s glitches unaffected, and some users have even reported it’s made things worse. Shame, really. Feel free to post below how it’s all gone for you. Thursday news ‘n stuff [Microsoft, via Eurogamer] More »
Bully 360 Patch Arrives
7:40AM Flynn De Marco | Rockstar’s promised patch for those experiencing issues with the 360 version of Bully has finally arrived. It’s a fairly small update and will fix all those frame rate, audio and other petty annoyances. And now if you’ll excuse me I have some boys to kiss. In the game, not in real life. Well maybe in real life to, who knows. I’m feeling saucy today. More »7:29AM Brian Crecente | Bully Patch News Coming Tomorrow Rockstar, who said two weeks ago that they were “working around the clock to rectify” the framerate issues and freezes that plagued older Xbox 360s playing Bully, told us today that they plan to update everyone on the patch tomorrow. Why not today? Not so sure. More »
