January: The month that...
Hot Coffee got Rockstar into hot water
As if things weren't hot enough already for Rockstar, forever branded as an evil force dragging kiddies🎉 into a world of casual ultra-violence and hardcore drugs, January saw dedicated gamers hidden deep in GTA San Andreas' coded guts.
Dubbed Hot Coffee, this rhythm action interlude gave you access to the bedroom𝔍s of CJ's many girlfriends for several rounds of how's your father. And, despite being less erotic than watching two p𒁏uppets going at it, the grotesque action offended enough delicate souls for San Andreas to be banned in Australia, and saw Rockstar spend much of 2006 rebuffing a conveyor-belt of opportunist lawsuits.
DS Lite's existence was denied, then confirmed
When rumours began to emerge in early Jan that Nintendo was readying a handheld, the Big N had everybody's attention. The toy-like DS owed none of its success to its chunkerrific looks, and an eye-pleasing reva🅘mp sounded more than enticing.
But any dreamꦐs of ergonomic portable gaming were quickly quashed as DS's creator stepped in to . So, when a remarkably straight-faced🐼 Nintendo finally the very next week, we were left dizzier than a freshly flushed fish.
Above: Despite its ugly, unfinished look and complex unlocking procedure, Hot Coffee nearly brought Rockstar severe legal problems
, revealing that ✱Twilight Princess would offer full compatibility with the Wii-mote.Nintendo w💛as swift to inform everyone that, actual📖ly, this was . Equally swiftly, NGC , stressing that the details weren't "a load of bull" but were "direct from the people making the game", exposing the lack of any out-and-out denial in Nintendo's riposte. There's no smoke without a burning public relations chap, of course, and NGC's claims were eventually confirmed.
Booth Babes were banned from E3
As the gaming world geared up for yet another E3 a staggering b𒐪low was struck for gender equality when event organiser, the Entertainment Software Association, barred all exhibitors from ไ.
Long used as eye-catching dressing for otherwise unattractive products, the news left us struggling with two competing emotions. Joy - as we could look forward to E3 without dreading the 🐬inevitable, stinking, sweaty man-mass clamouring to fill their 10GB camera-phones with compromising photos; and pity - because who in their right mind would visꦫit the N-Gage stand now?
Above: Despite its ugly, unfinished look and complex unlocking procedure, Hot Coffee nearly brought Rockstar severe legal problems
NGC's claims about Zelda's Wii controls were rubbished by Nintendo
Nintendo upset everyone by pushing The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess into 2006, claiming that work on "incredible new game elements" was the cause. But only NGC magaz꧑ine could , revealing that Twilight Princess would offer full compatibility with th𓃲e Wii-mote.
Nintendo was swift to inform everyone that, actually, this was . Equally swiftly, NGC , stressing that the details weren't "a load of bull" but were "direct from the people making the game", exposing the lack of any out-and-out denial in Nintendo's riposte. There's no smoke without a burning public relations chap, of course, and NGC's claims wer𒈔e eventually confirmed.
Booth Babes were banned from E3
As the gaming world๊ geared up for yet another E3 a st♚aggering blow was struck for gender equality when event organiser, the Entertainment Software Association, barred all exhibitors from .
Long used as eye-catching dressing for otherwise unattractive products, the news left us struggling with two competing emotions. Joy - as we could look forward to E3🉐 without dreading the i🙈nevitable, stinking, sweaty man-mass clamouring to fill their 10GB camera-phones with compromising photos; and pity - because who in their right mind would visit the N-Gage stand now?
