GTA: San Andreas Sex Game Action Suit Costs Take-Two $20 Million
The Hot Coffee content found in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has cost Take-Two and its insurance carriers more than $20 million to settle a class action suit.
Hot Coffee was a sex-based mini-game that was cut out of the final retail game, but which featured a code that was unlocked by modders.
Take-Two paid $4,915,000, while its insurance carriers paid out $15,200,000.
"We are pleased to have reached this settlement, which represents another important step forward for the company," said Strauss Zelnick, chairman of Take-Two, in a brief statement.
Thank you for using the term "modders." It really annoyed me when this story first broke several years ago, that media accounts were saying things to the effect of "hackers added the Hot Coffee content to the game," when quite clearly people with hex-editors and Pro Action Replays and so on were just re-enabling what was already on the game disc.