This is because of the infamous Hot Coffee mod for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which restored a cut sex minigame. By modern standards, it's laughable.

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The infamous GTA: San Andreas' controversial Hot Coffee has come back to haunt Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive.

The mini-game showed the characters having explicit, simulated sex. But the content was not available unless users actually downloaded and ran the Hot Coffee mod for their PC or games console ...

Former Xbox boss Peter Moore sees 2004's GTA: San Andreas, and specifically its sexually explicit Hot Coffee minigame, as a turning point in the video game industry that put it in league with the ...

The "Hot Coffee" mod saw players taking their girlfriend home and then having sex with her in a mini-game that, while present on the game DVD, only came to light after a PC modification unlocked ...

The game was originally given a Mature rating, but after the 'Hot Coffee' mod was discovered last year it was pulled from the shelves and re-rated as Adults Only. Take-Two claims costs incurred by ...

But the content was not available unless users actually downloaded and ran the Hot Coffee mod for their PC or games console, such as the Xbox and PlayStation 2.