"Cop killer" game to get January release

AFTER BEING bumped back due to a "business review", Eidos has announced that controversial "cop killing" videogame 25 to Life will be released on January 18th, 2006.

In September, Eidos announced that the game would suffer delays due to its new ownership by SCi Entertainment. On the 11th of October Jack Thompson contacted us saying that: "I have received word in the last two days from a credible source that Eidos has decided never to release 25 to Life." Unfortunately for Thompson, the source appears to have been wrong.

The issue with 25 to Life is in the game's material. Players may choose teams between villains and police and wage brutal war for territory. With online play ready for every version released the game has suffered not at all from controversy, instead becoming far better known than before.

While the claims of Eidos' head of communications that he knew nothing of either this cancellation or Jack Thompson had seemed defensive at the time, it certainly seems as though 25 to Life will see the light of day. We can quote Thompson as having said of 25 to Life, "If they haven't pulled it, we're gonna sue their butts." We will contact him as soon as it is less unseemly to interrupt his sleep. µ