Rockstar Games gets into trouble again: I don’t know what this company is aiming at, but obviously they only attract controversial discussion with their violent and obsessing behavior games. Apparently they managed to get Manhunt 2 banned in the UK territory by The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

The game was originally refused back in June by the BBFC so that the game would not be sold legally in Britain. The exact words from BBFC were that the game had an "unremitting bleakness and callousness of tone in an overall game context which constantly encourages visceral killing with exceptionally little alleviation or distancing".

The developers made many changes within the game engine and concept since then, especially the leveling down the amount of visual detail of some of the killing moves. However, BBFC still considers the game as still having some scenes with “casually sadistic nature”, and now any decision to change the verdict of BBFC must be taken by the game publisher Take Two Interactive. The game will be released on 31st of October in the USA.

Art of Murder: FBI Confidential is a point–and-click adventure game created by the same team that developed Sentinel and Reah games, and having CITY Interactive as publisher.

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The storyline is about Nicole Bonnet, an FBI agent who has to solve the mysteries under some serial crimes having as victims only rich citizens.
She starts the mission in New York and while discovering clues and starting to see the big picture, she reaches the Peruvian city of Cusco which is the ancient capital of the Inca Empire.

Art of Murder: FBI Confidential features a dark and captivating story filled with 100 mind-tangling riddles, about 20 characters and 15 different locations, realistic sound effects, and spectacular graphics created by the best graphic artists and directors from Poland.

The game is expected to be released by the end of this year.

Obviously you might ask yourselves what has a Church got to do with a video game. Well, apparently the Church of England has demanded from the British Academy of Films and Television Arts (BAFTA) to remove the PS3 video game title “Resistance: Fall of Man” (RFOM) from the list of awards because the game presents a desecrated version of the Manchester Cathedral.

 According to the newspaper “The Guardian”, the Dean of Manchester said that the parishioners were disgusted by the fact that there is an extremely violent gun-fight in the virtual version of the cathedral from the above mentioned game, while another church official’s words were “it’s like rubbing salt in the wounds”. BAFTA’s response was that RFOM has been nominated for the PC World Gamers’ Award, which is voted upon only by members of the public and that the category contains the top-selling games on each platform.

 

Sony and the Church of England are in big conflict ever since the game was released in April. The Church even considered taking action against Sony as they have never given them permission to use the building interior in the game. Sony replied in a letter that they did not intend to cause offense but that there would be no connection between "contemporary issues in 21st century Manchester and the work of science fiction in which a fictitious 1950s Britain is under attack by aliens".