This year’s Grand Theft Auto IV: Liberty City was a huge, violent, crime-ridden success, much like the town on which it’s based: New Yawk. So, in today’s creatively bankrupt Hollywood, it was only a matter of time until someone started talking about a movie based on the title.

Because we’d like to get our hands on some of the empire that digital hooker-kicking has built, we’ve taken the liberty of casting the possible Liberty City movie.

Thank us – with boatloads of cash – when it’s a hit.

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XBox's online game community showed a homophobic hand last week.

Gay player Ryan Grant received a not-so-nice missive from Microsoft saying he had to change his screen name, "theGayergamer," because other XBox Live members found it offensive.

From a note sent to The Consumerist:

I assumed that once i called Microsoft they would straighten things out. I talked to a supervisor there, Roxy, who told me that she didn't personally find the fact that my gamer tag had gay in the name offensive, but that the greater Xbox community did, so I would have to change it.

This should earn Microsoft some points in arch nemesis activist Ken Hutcherson's book, huh?

Even Grand Theft Auto IV isn't going to touch this campaign from TBWA for Playstation. Thumbplay, anyone?

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Wow.

A recent poll from parent-oriented gaming site What They Play asked what offended parents more: violence, cursing, hetero sex or gay sex. As you can see, decapitation ranks better than same-sex smooching.

Now we understand all the school shootings, cheerleader beat downs and other underage maladies.

Video games have never been our thing, so we didn't quite to know make of this game, Postal: Fudge Packers.

Thank the virtual gods for Amazon and its commentators, one of whom posted this familiar sounding description:

Ok this game is not for the politically correct or for the sane. if you like any southpark junk then you might get a kick out of this game. it is raunchy, disgusting, racy, politically incorrect, violent, graphic. But you know its addicting and fun too. I was going through a bad period and this game was slightly therapeutic. Shoot up some bad guys and destroy some zombies to relieve stress.

Just a typical Saturday night in Chelsea.

The lesbians out there may be intrigued to hear of a new website: Lesbian Geek. A spin-off of Lesbian Gamers, the site acts as a hub for all things lesbianically nerdy. Beam us up, big titted babe!

Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond's Game Over Project continues with Human Tetris.

It's pretty self-explanatory, but here's a little more technical detail:

It consists of a series of collaborative animation movies which revive some of the very first video games. The pixels are replaced by a group of real human-beings that are moving from seat to seat in a theatre during about 4 to 6 hours… Once all these pictures are turned into a short animation movie, a giant human-scale video game unfolds "live".

Past projects have included Space Invaders and Pole Position.

Welcome to The Home Issue, reader!

We're going to be spending the next few weeks nestling in for the cold winter months. In addition to busting up inside some local abodes, we'll be spending some time looking at design, art, games, books and ideas to keep you occupied until things start heating up.

Brooklyn-based interior designer Chad McPhail starts things off on a hospitable note: he and his boyfriend, Grizzly Bear guitarist Ed Droste, opened their door to our vagabond editor and photographer. See what transpired, after the jump.

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A gay gamer got an earful when he used the name "xxxGayBoyxxx" for XBox's gun-happy Halo 3. He explains:

This is what happens when gay Masterchiefs don't abide by "Don't ask Don't tell".

Watch what ensues when I use a gamertag that's proud and unambiguous, xxxGayBoyxxx.

Other than maybe a quick "hello" to the chat room or a request to "veto", I didn't ever say anything first or taunt anyone. What was said by these players was initiated by them with no provocation on my part. The vast majority of the times I wouldn't even respond back so the audio would be clear.

The results aren't pretty. Nor is the language.

It's good to know so many hateful pricks get their rocks off going after the bent boys. Sigh…

• We can't believe we've never experienced the magic of Scottish noisemakers Orange Juice. This track's called "Rip It Up" and we love it more than we love ourselves, if you can believe that…

• Celebrities keep GOP donations under wraps.

• Gay man's killer takes prison dental technician hostage; said nurse unscathed.

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Singapore's government cracked down on a video game with lesbianic tendencies:

Irate gamers criticized Singapore's censors Thursday for banning a highly anticipated space adventure game containing a sex scene between a human woman and a female alien.

The game, called Mass Effect, is the first from Microsoft to be prohibited in the city-state. It was to be launched next week.
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The scene triggering the ban depicts the human-alien duo in suggestive positions and ends with the alien saying, "By the Gods, that was incredible, Commander."

Now we can look forward to the religious right campaigning against the polytheism. Thanks, Microsoft!

It was meant to be an idyllic game of virtual children's Scrabble. Unfortunately, Irishman Zachary McAdam's and his 7-year old daughter's lives may have been ruined when an anagram read "lesbo".

That's right - the makers of Scrabble included a slang word for lesbian in their collection of premeditated words. Sound the alarm! McAdam explains his reaction after lesbo took over his screen:

We were stuck trying to find the last five-letter anagram so I hit the give-up option and the term 'lesbo' appeared on the screen. I nearly fell off my chair.

The term 'lesbo' is a slang name intentionally meant to cause offence. I looked it up on the website dictionary.com just to make sure I wasn't over- reacting and it described the word as a noun, slang, disparaging and offensive.

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Sony's getting tongue-in-cheek with this ad for their hand held PSP. As our friend over at Another Queer Jewish Buddist points out, toilet humor's become a common trend in advertising.

Why oh why are advertisers so interested in what's happening in men's rooms? Because, as Larry Craig taught us, men's rooms are interesting.

• In case you didn't know, Siegfried and Roy are gay.

They just never came out. Las Vegas magicians Siegfried & Roy are coming out of the closet in a highly anticipated autobiography soon to be released. It may not come as a big surprise to most people that the two performers are gay but it will be the first time they admit to this officially.

According to details from the upcoming book leaked to the National Enquirer, Siegfried and Roy [were] once very much in love but have since transformed their relationship into a working partnership and a deep friendship.

Now that that's out of the way, we can all go on living our lives.

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