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Grand Theft Auto San Andreas continues to generate news and controversy years after its 2004 release. The open world action game from Rockstar Games got slammed after someone used a hack to find the hidden "Hot Coffee" sex mini-game in the PC version in 2005. The discovery caused the ESRB to change the rating of the game from M to AO (Adults Only) which then caused Rockstar to pull the game and re-released it with the mini-game removed.

Now IGN reports that Rockstar and its parent company Take Two Interactive has been hit with a lawsuit filed on Monday by Cypress Hill backup singer Michael "Shagg" Washington. Washington claims that he met with Rockstar in 2003 and told the publisher aspects of his own life. He now claims that the game's character Carl "CJ" Johnson is based on those discussions and is suing the parties for "fraud, misappropriation of likeness and infringement" He wants 25 percent of the game's profits, reportedly worth $250 million, as compensation. If you are wondering why it took Washington so long to file a lawsuit, he claims that he didn't even know the game existed until earlier this year when his nephew told him about it. Take Two has already stated that it believes Washington's lawsuit is "completely without merit and will vigorously defend itself in the matter."

While Mac gamers have seen their prospects improve somewhat in 2010, the fact is that getting a native Mac port of a game previously released for other platforms can still take years to happen Case in point it the news today that over nine years after Grand Theft Auto III was first released the open world action-game is finally making its native Mac debut, along with its two immediate follow ups Grand Theft Auto Vice City and Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.

All three games, which were ported by TransGaming using its Cider technology, are now available to purchase and download at GameTreeMac.com exclusively for the next 30 days with all three games costing $14.99 each.

The weekend PC game sales have started to pop up and Steam is first out of the gate with a trio of titles that can be bought for almost next to nothing. It's the three games in the so-called Grand Theft Auto III open world action game trilogy from Rockstar Games.

From now until early Monday you can download and purchase Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto Vice City for just $2.49 each, a 75 percent discount. The final game, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, also gets a 75 percent price cut this weekend to just $3.74. You can also get all three games in a bundle for just $7.49.

Steam has already announced that this week will be a LucasArts PC game sales week but GamersGate also has its own week long PC game sales event. This week the PC game download site is offering deep price cuts on games related to pirates. Among the titles on sale for the next week are Age of Pirates 2 for $9.99, Tales of Monkey Island for $13.98 and Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island for $9.99.

Meanwhile, from now until 1 pm Eastern time on Tuesday, Direct2Drive has put King's Bounty: Gold Edition on sale for $11.25. The site also has a collection of Grand Theft Auto III, GTA: Vice City and GTA: San Andreas on sale for just $14.95.

Three of the best selling and most influential games of all time will finally be heading to the Mac platform. In a new fan Q&A for Rockstar Games on the publisher's Facebook page, the company revealed that three older games in the Grand Theft Auto open world crime action game series will be coming to Apple's machines.

The games themselves include Grand Theft Auto III (first released for the PS2 way back in 2001) and its two follow-ups Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The Q&A said the games would be released "most likely later this year" with a promise that more info will be revealed later.

[Via Kotaku]

If you missed the flash sale on Steam for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas earlier this week, you got another chance to get the open world action game on the cheap. From now until 1 am Eastern time tonight (that's 10 pm Pacific time) you can get the Rockstar North developed game for just $4.99, a 75 percent savings from its normal Steam price.

Once again we will remind our readers that these flash sales can happen at any time from now until Monday. You still have the option of getting all 13 Rockstar Games titles on Steam for just $42.49 until mid-day Monday.

The big Rockstar Games flash sales this week continue over at Steam today. From now until 2 pm Eastern time (11 am Pacific time) you can purchase and download the 2005 released open world action game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for just $4.99, a 75 percent savings from its normal $19.99.

As we reported back on Monday, Steam will be rolling out a number of these quick flash sales from the Rockstar Games collection all week. However you can still get all 13 games from the publisher that are available on Steam for the bundle price of just $42.49 from now until this coming Monday.

The Steam PC game download service continues to break out their deep but very brief sales from the Rockstar Games collection this week. The latest example is a bundle of all of their older Grand Theft Auto games for a very low price that will stay that way until 7 pm Eastern time (4 pm Pacific time).

For the next 3 hours and 15 minutes you can get Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto II, Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto Vice City and the infamous Grand Theft Auto San Andreas in a bundle for just $7.50 via Steam. It will likely be a long time before this price is duplicated so if you have been wanting to play these games for a while you had better grab them at this low price while you can.

In 2005 a mod maker found a way to unlock a hidden sex mini-game that was put in by the developers of Rockstar North for their PC port of the open world action game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The resulting firestorm of controversy cause some to file lawsuits against Rockstar's parent company Take Two Interactive.

The publisher eventually came to an settlement agreement in court where anyone who bought the original version of the game could get some cash for their trouble. Now Kotaku reports that those cash settlements, ranging from $5 to $35, are finally being mailed out to those folks who requested compensation for having that hidden "hot coffee" scene in the game.

It was an incident that changed how many felt about games and today the "Hot Coffee" mini-game that was discovered via a mod for the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas just cost its publisher Take Two Interactive more than $20 million. That's the amount the publisher said it was paying out today to settle a class action lawsuit that was filed against the company over the discovery of the mini-game.

The "Hot Coffee" mini-game, which was put in by the team at Rockstar North but hidden from regular playing of the game, was discovered via a third party mod when the PC version was released in 2005. The ESRB changed the rating from 'M" to "AO" a few weeks after word got out about the mini-game which caused Take Two to recall all the unsold copies of the game. It later re-released GTA: San Andreas without the mini-game and regained its "M" rating. The settlement today has still to be approved by the courts.