Rockstar reacts to storm in a hot coffee cup

ROCKSTAR GAMES, creator of the Grand Theft Auto series of driving, shooting and ho-ing romps has finally reacted to the appearance of a "Hot Coffee" mod that has stirred up perhaps too much media interest.

The company said the mod is the work of a "determined group of hackers who have gone to significant trouble to alter scenes in the official version of the game."

Rock Star said that "hackers" violated the software user agreement, to create the mod "by disassembling and then combining, recompiling and altering the game's source code".

A rep for the company told the INQUIRER that Rock Star admires and respects the creative work of the mod communitiy, but there are obviously fears that the appearance of the hot coffee mod, with its associated sex scenes, may be confused in the minds of the censors with the work of the company itself.

Rock Star claimed: "The hot coffee scenes cannot be created without intentional and significant technical modifications and reverse engineering of the game's source code." It said it is working on securing the source code, to prevent the game from "being altered by the 'hot coffee' modification".

The company also said it is working "diligently" to assist the Entertainment Software Rating Board's investigations into the the circumstances surrounding the "hot coffee" mod of the game. "We remain confident that the ESRB assigned Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas the correct rating, "M" (Mature 17+)," it says.

New York based rep Rodney Walker couldn't deny that the mod may unlock code unused in the official version of the game, though he kept insisting the mod was the work of third party modders and had nothing to do with Rock Star.

"If you see the poster on the wall in the mod, then that may be from us," he said. As to whether a whole mini-game involving humping your girlfriends to gain extra points was created by Rockstar, Rodders wouldn't comment, other than to state that the mod was created by modders.

The naughty modders claim they simply unlocked code that was unused in the offical version of the game.

"I can't comment on behalf of the mod community," said Rodney. Quite often. µ

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