GTA maker coughs up $20m for 'hot coffee' sex
Take-Two Interactive will shuffle $20 million out the door to make headaches from "hot coffee" go away.
The game publisher said Wednesday it has settled a longstanding class-action shareholder lawsuit over an infamous sex scene squirreled away in the code of Grand Theft Auto: San Andres. Take-Two will stuff $20,115,000 into a settlement fund for members of the class-action lawsuit. The company's insurance carriers will pay $15,200,000 of the settlement, and Take-Two will foot the rest.
The lawsuit stems from a normally inaccessible sex minigame in GTA:SA that's initiated when the game's protagonist is invited into his girlfriend's house for a cup of "hot coffee." Said offer of joe inevitably leads to somewhat explicit virtual bootknocking, which beget a firestorm of angry parents, grandstanding politicians, and disgruntled shareholders.
