Jack Thompson once again wastes lots of people’s time and tax money, this time filing a ‘pioneering’ wrongful death suit in New Mexico against Sony, Take-Two and Rockstar Games. The suit is on behalf of the relatives of a family slain on Sam Donaldson’s ranch earlier this year, when a 14 year old boy killed his family after his father hit him for not cleaning horse stalls fast enough. The young boy alleges his father had abused him for years, but that was all forgotten by Jack Thompson, who instead of addressing the fact that an abused child resorted to such desperate lengths to escape further abuse, grandstands and tries to buy himself and his twisted ideals more air time on the evening news.

Read more: Rockstar / Take-Two blamed for all of society’s problems yet again

We missed this, partially due to the Wii craziness of last week AND because we have the tendancy to avoid Rockstar whenever we can, but, it seems that Bully will be granted the holy grail of ratings, TEEN! I bet Jack Thompson was one step closer to that heart attack after reading that at his breakfast table. Well, good news for Rockstar, especially since this allows teens to purchase the title without parental supervision, a rare thing for a Rockstar title.

Read more: Bully to receive TEEN rating from ESRB

Those Rockstar fans in or around San Diego on September the 28th will be lucky enough to see a presentation sponsored by Rockstar Games and IGDA San Diego, titled, “The Characters of Table Tennis“. Wolfgang Engel, author and senior developer will discuss the real-time graphic algorithms used in Table Tennis, as well as the shaders used to mimic skin, sweat, eyes, eyelashes, cloth and the various hair-types. The event will take place Thursday, September 28th at Qualcomm Auditorium in San Diego, California.

Read more: Wolfgang Engel presents the characters of Rockstar’s Table Tennis

As Take-Two’s share price continues it’s downward spiral and more rumours of key-employee losses abound, Rockstar Games today announced that it plans to rename it’s upcoming free-marketing machine Bully for the European market. The new name for Bully is now Canis Canem Edit, which in Latin roughly translates to “Dog Eat Dog”, the motto of the school which the game takes place. No information has come from Rockstar yet as to whether the name will be changed for the US market as well.

Read more: Rockstar Games renames Bully for the European market