More anti-Grand Theft Auto pressure

The US House of Representatives this week joined Sen. Hillary Clinton in asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the makers of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The resolution calling for the investigation passed 355-21, the Associated Press reports. Lawmakers apparently were concerned about whether San Andreas's producer Rockstar Games and its parent Take Two Interactive intended to deceive the Entertainment Software Rating Board by concealing the X-rated content in the game. "Take Two initially said the scenes were not part of the retail version of the game, but were created by third parties. Later the company admitted the scenes were contained in its version," the AP explains. Here's the BBC's coverage. For more background see my main feature last week. At the state level, meanwhile, "a new Illinois law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors is unconstitutional, software makers and resellers asserted in a lawsuit" filed in a federal court in Chicago on Monday," CNET reports.