Target Bans Manhunt 2: Code Unlocks Original Violence

Manhunt 2 is being pulled of the shelves at Target due to a "code" that is floating around that reverts the game back to its original gory-violent ways. Target found out about this and decided to pull the game from their stores. I had a feeling that something like this would happen, once the developers of the game were forced to tone it down. Games like this typically will have a code "leak" of some kind that will allow a user to play the unrated version.

My problem is with Target and their double standard on media. There are tons of movies that are on their very shelves right now that are more gory and violent than Manhunt 2. How they justify that is beyond me, but I get the feeling that this is coming from the stock holders. Are games marketed towards kids? Yes. But there are many adults who play games that are not for, or marketed towards kids. Just as there are movies that are marketed towards adults, and not kids.

I wish everyone would get on the same page.

[Crunchgear]

Blackberry: Fin!

I love the French.

Top French government officials have been told that they are no longer to use BlackBerry devices for fears that foreigners could spy on them. The Le Monde newspaper reported that worker's in the President and Prime minister office were told that their email could fall into foreign hands.

France security SGDN , states that the BlackBerries use U.S. and U.K. Based servers. And that the risk is just too high. But some of the officials are bucking the system and using them anyway.

"They tried to offer us something else to replace our Blackberries but it doesn't work," one unnamed official told the paper.

No BlackBerry for you!!!

Oh well, Viva Le France

Read the entire article after the jump. [BBC]