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Composer Mentions Bully 2 [UPDATE]
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Nov 10
By Brian Ashcraft Rockstar released sandbox title Bully on the PlayStation 2 back in 2006 and later ported the title to the Xbox 360, Windows and the Nintendo Wii. Set in a school environment, the PS2 version sold 1.5 million copies. Bully 2? When was this announced by Rockstar? Oh right, it hasn't been.
Pediatricians Take On the Schoolyard Bully
Original at New York Times
• Mon, Jun 8
NY You just have to find the bully's weak spot and attack it! They can't take a taste of their own behavior. As a former bully victim I frankly don't give a damn about the bullies problems or suffering. If bullies can be 'helped' that's fine with me but ...
E3 '09: Squeeballs with Gametrak Freedom Debuts at Expo
Original at Planet Xbox 360
• Wed, Jun 3
MI Bully and El Toro, two characters from the game, will be out on the streets of downtown Los Angeles talking about the game, chasing each other, and passing out toys that resemble themselves. “I do not eat other Squeeballs,” El Toro said defiantly. ...
Bully for the 'pen
Original at Charleston Gazette
• Tue, Jun 2
Bully for the 'pen USA On the strength of Martinez's arm and a game-winning hit from pinch-hitter Josue Peley, the Power downed Lake County 9-8 in 11 innings before 3413 at Appalachian Power Park. "The biggest thing was Martinez,'' said West Virginia manager Gary Green. ...
A Bitter Cup of Joe: Bagman Biden's Bully-Boy Diplomacy
Original at The Baltimore Chronicle
• Mon, May 25
MD The game was well and truly over at that point, all pretenses fell away. It was now obvious, beyond all excuses, rationalizations and self-delusions, just what we were in for: more militarism, more lawlessness, more eager servicing of the rich and ...
Patch: Bully: Scholarship Editio...
Original at Atomicgamer
• Tue, Apr 28
TX If you bear with us, we think you'll find atomicgamer's file section to be even better than what we had on 3D Downloads. Thanks, and enjoy! This multi-language* patch for Bully: Scholarship Edition will update the game to v1.200 with a couple of fixes.
Rockstar patches PC Bully: Scholarship Edition
Original at Blast
• Tue, Apr 28
It's an experience we've all soldiered through but Rockstar wants to end the suffering for PC Bully: Scholarship Edition gamers right now! Rockstar Games released patch 1.200 for their open-world schoolyard title today. The virtual band-aid improves ...
Common Sense Media Criticizes Full Frontal Nudity in GTA IV Expansion
Original at GamePolitics
• Fri, Feb 20
By gamepolitics Families can talk about why Rockstar likes to push the envelope and garner controversy over its games? Why did they have to put full-frontal nudity in the game if it's not integral to the story? Do they correlate media outrage with extraordinary game sales? Do players expect Rockstar to s...
Bully ReviewOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Jan 21
By rss@youtube.com (TheDeadManINC) Bully" for PS2. Release: Oct 17, 2006 GameSpot Score 8.7 great Jeff knuckles down with Bully in this video review. The Good * Inventive setting * quality dialogue and voice acting * great cutscene animation * nice character upgrades * amazing soundtrack. The Bad * Real 15-year-olds don't pas...
Grand Theft Auto IV PC patch needs a patch
Original at lastshepard (WordPress)
• Mon, Dec 15
By aliengroups Continuing in a tradition set forth by Bully, Rockstar’s latest Grand Theft Auto IV PC patch may itself be in need of a patch. According to BigDownload, the update has created issues for some gamers’ controllers, both Xbox 360 Windows controller and keyboard/mouse combination. For...
Fanfiction: Bully BL: for all your Bully x needs! - New
Original at Bully BL
• Wed, Nov 19
Disclaimer: Bully/Canis Canem Edit belongs to Rockstar Warning: not proof read (by someone other than myself) Pairing(s): none, Gary/Petey "implied" I suppose... if you would like to help me by proof reading my work for me, ...
Bully: Scholarship Edition < Multimedia | PopMatters
Original at PopMatters
• Mon, Nov 10
By G. Christopher Williams Bully: Scholarship Edition - Review -- The Bully franchise is more or less Grand Theft Auto filtered through the meaner streets of boarding school.
New Releases For The Week Of 10/20/08
Original at GayGamer.net
• Tue, Oct 21
By TheDoctor The mythical release week to end all release weeks is here. This week, no matter who you are, no matter what system you own, there is at least one game that is a must buy, PC owners can explore Dead Space or get into trouble with Bully. PS3 owners will finally be able to play the phenomenal BioShoc...
Bully: Scholarship Edition - Review - play.tm
Original at Play.tm
• Thu, Sep 25
By paul@ferrago.com (Paul Newcombe) What was once Bully, only to finally see the light of day under the distinctly less catchy title of Canis Canem Edit, is now simply Bully once more. It appears the furore that the original title attracted when the game came out on the ...
GC 2008: Bully SE graduating to PC
Original at GameSpot
• Thu, Aug 21
- The game tells the story of Jimmy Hopkins, a troubled 15-year old who is dumped at the front gates of New England private school Bullworth Academy by his ... Bully & EndWar PC-Bound Action Trip all 2 news articles
Opinion: The School Bully: Does It Run In The Family? - Science Daily
Original at Science Daily
• Tue, Aug 5
The School Bully: Does It Run In The Family? press release) - A review of national and international research on the issue is finding a family connection to the origins of young bullies. Elizabeth Sweeney, a University ...
Podcast: Jack Thompson Has Political Aspirations
Original at GamePolitics
• Sat, Jun 14
By gamepolitics If he runs for the Florida legislature, it won't be Thompson's first political campaign. In 1988, Thompson ran unsuccessfully against Janet Reno for the position of Dade County State Attorney. In 2006 Thompson announced that he would run against Judge Ronald Friedman, following Friedm...
With Subpoenas for Strauss Zelnick, Jeb Bush, Bully Judge & 30 Others Denied, Jack Thompson Will Boycott Sanctions Hearing
Original at GamePolitics
• Wed, May 28
By gamepolitics And, with federal lawsuits already pending against the Florida Bar and Florida Supreme Court, Thompson yesterday filed yet another suit in U.S. District Court, this time naming the State of Florida as defendant. In the new case, Thompson yet again invokes the loyalty oath issue and seeks t...
Bully: Scholarship Edition Review - DailyGame
Original at DailyGame
• Tue, Apr 8
Bully: Scholarship Edition Review - The premise of Bully: Scholarship Edition is simple. Jimmy Hopkins is dropped off at Bullsworth Academy by his parents, who are a little happy to be rid of ... Mad Doc Software is Now Rockstar New England TMCnet all 2 news articles
Opinion: The Bar Trial of Jack Thompson (Part 7): Thompson Cross Examines the Bully Case Judge
Original at GamePolitics
• Wed, Mar 26
By GamePolitics What follows is Thompson’s cross examination of Judge Friedman, who became a target of Thompson’s ire after he refused to grant the controversial attorney’s 2006 motion to have Bully declared a public nuisance in Florida. JT: Right. It’s owned by the [video game] industry, the ESRB.
The Bar Trial of Jack Thompson (Part 6): Bully Case Judge TestifiesOriginal at GamePolitics
• Tue, Mar 25
By GamePolitics Thompson’s unusual suit, which charged that the T-rated Bully was a public nuisance, came before Judge Ronald Friedman on the Miami-Dade County Circuit Court. In an early-round win for Thompson, Friedman ordered Take Two to produce the game for an in-chambers viewing prior to its reta...
New Bully 360 patch creating problems? - Eurogamer
Original at Eurogamer
• Tue, Mar 25
New Bully 360 patch creating problems? UK - Mar 25, 2008 Rockstar has released a patch for the troubled Xbox 360 version of Bully: Scholarship Edition, but electronic word on the Internet street is that it's ...
Bully: Scholarship Edition patch out now on Xbox Live
Original at Xbox 360
• Fri, Mar 21
By Glen D. Gamers who enrolled in Rockstar Games' Bully: Scholarship Edition for the Microsoft Xbox 360 were a bit disappointed to find a bevy of bugs with their purchase. Whines and moans echoed tales of freezing games and smaller evils, ...
Bully Scholarship Edition Patch Out; My Achievement Glitch
Original at Breaking Windows
• Thu, Mar 20
By Ken Edwards If you have Bully Scholarship Edition for the Xbox 360, Rockstar today gave you one more reason to play the game - a patch that fixes a bunch of known bugs. The game has framerate issues, and a number of hard crashes. ...
Bully patch now Live
Original at Xboxic
• Thu, Mar 20
By Ross Hayward Anyone too scared to return to Bullworth Academy for fear of it freezing up all over the place can hopefully try again today, as Rockstar have confirmed that the patch is now up on Live. (comment on this article…)
Bully 360 Patch Arrives
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Mar 20
By fdemarco Rockstar's promised patch for those experiencing issues with the 360 version of Bully has finally arrived. It's a fairly small update and will fix all those frame rate, audio and other petty annoyances. And now if you'll excuse me I have some boys to kiss. In the game, not in real life. Well mayb...
Review: Bully: Scholarship Edition for Xbox 360
Original at Geek.com
• Thu, Mar 20
By James Let’s make a few things clear here. Bully: Scholarship Edition for Xbox 360 has some flaws, and there is truth to the numerous reports of issues that make this game seem like it’s not worth playing. There are said to be framerate issues, audio glitches, and even game freezing. And Rockstar has...
Bully: Scholarship Edition Patch Goes Live
Original at Game Informer
• Thu, Mar 20
If you're among the people who purchased the Xbox 360 version of Rockstar Games' Bully: Scholarship Edition, you may have run into a few problems. Chief among those issues were system lockups and framerate drops. ...
Bully Patch News Coming Tomorrow Rockstar, ...
Original at Kotaku
• Wed, Mar 19
• 2 related articles
By Brian Crecente Bully Patch News Coming Tomorrow Rockstar, who said two weeks ago that they were "working around the clock to rectify" the framerate issues and freezes that plagued older Xbox 360s playing Bully, told us today that they plan to update everyone on the patch tomorrow. Why not today? Not so su...
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Bully Debate… Teacher: Gamers Don’t Get It… Developer: Teachers Should Play the Game
Original at GamePolitics
• Thu, Mar 13
By GamePolitics Clearly, the creators and promoters of the game just don’t get it… A game such as Bully: The Scholarship Edition, which reduces bullying to a mere lark… contributes nothing positive to youth culture. Indeed, it contradicts everything that educators are trying to accomplish…
Rockstar Bully Patch For Xbox 360
Original at Hq.Com
• Mon, Mar 10
By Posted by wes213 Rockstar was reported as saying: "We are very aware of the problems some people have been experiencing with the Xbox 360 version of Bully Scholarship Edition and have been doing everything within our powers to resolve these issues as quickly as possible."
Patch for buggy Bully on 360 coming next week
Original at Joystiq
• Fri, Mar 7
By Scott Jon Siegel Rockstar's been awfully apologetic about the game-breaking bugs and glitches present in the Xbox 360 version of Bully: Scholarship Edition (as they should be). In the latest public apology, a Rockstar Games representative is promising a fix within the next week, in the form of a title up...
Rockstar Readying 360 Bully Patch [Patches]
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Mar 7
By Mike Fahey Rockstar's Bully: Scholarship Edition came out of the oven a little half-baked, with frequent lock-ups, audio glitches, and a generally poor frame rate severely ticking off gamers and downright horrifying the developers. Thankfully Rockstar was able to overcome the horror and get to...
Xbox 360 News: Rockstar to patch Xbox 360 Bully glitches next week
Original at GamePro.com
• Thu, Mar 6
• 1 related articles
After mounting complaints from justified gamers, Rockstar on Friday said it would fix all problems related to the Xbox 360 version of Bully.
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Journalist: Teacher Group’s Bully Bashing Deserves an F
Original at GamePolitics
• Thu, Mar 6
By GamePolitics REAL Bully problems: We note reports of freezing and frame rate problems in the Xbox 360 version of Bully: Scholarship Edition. In fact, GP’s own copy locked up on an early mission to hack a bully’s combination lock. Rockstar is said to be “horrified” by the tech issues and working on a fix. Ste...
Preview: Bully: Scholarship EditionOriginal at Geek.com
• Fri, Feb 1
By James You may remember a small controversy, related to this minimal sexuality. Sometimes you perform missions for girls, and the reward is a kiss. Well, you can also kiss some boys. If you think that’s horrifying, then please don’t play Bully. But the “Hot Coffee Incident” or Manhunt 2 controversy...
New Bully Controversy Brewing, But Was the Original REALLY a Problem?
Original at GamePolitics
• Mon, Jan 21
By GamePolitics As GamePolitics reported yesterday, video game watchdogs in the U.K. have issued harsh criticism of the upcoming Bully: Scholarship Edition. Triggering the outcry is Rockstar’s plan to release an updated version of its controversial 2006 PlayStation 2 hit for Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wi...
Jeff Norman: Rudy the BullyOriginal at Huffington Post
• Thu, May 31
By Jeff Norman Rudy Giuliani is a bully, and the best way to defang bullies is to fearlessly rebuke them. But after Giuliani arrogantly counseled Ron Paul to "withdraw" his supposedly unique contention that military intrusions breed resentment in the Middle East just as they do or would anywhere else,...
Rachel Sklar: Rosie O'Donnell: Bully, Suck, Sore LoserOriginal at Huffington Post
• Fri, May 25
By Rachel Sklar It is ego that drove Rosie to quit three weeks before the expiration of her contract, ego that impelled her to pout in non-rhyming free verse on her blog, posting a self-pitying video and affecting a put-upon air. This is the same woman who took a week to apologize for the "ching chong" commen...
HD DVD Review: Ant Bully
Original at Blogcritics
• Sun, Apr 29
By Matt Paprocki Some of the ant peril aspects have been ripped directly from a growing line of insect-based animated features. A water attack is highly similar to the rain sequence from Pixar’s A Bug’s Life. The character design is likewise highly reminiscent, though few of the characters in Ant Bully are...
Bully boys
Original at Arkansas Times
• Sat, Apr 28
Opinion is protected in these United States. Feldman's seems tame enough under the circumstances. Not to Govar. Feldman says Govar wrote him last week during a business day (about 11:30 a.m.) on the U.S. attorney's e-mail system and signed it as a member of the prosecutor's staff as he threatene...
Jessie Klein: Bully Rage: Common School-Shooter Misery
Original at Huffington Post
• Sun, Apr 22
By Jessie Klein But children in our schools should not have to take it. Repeatedly, teachers, parents, and other adults and students say that bullying is a normal part of school life, a rite of passage, or simply a case of "boys will be boys" and sometimes "girls will be girls." Yet my research has traced bull...
ThreatsWatch.Org - RapidRecon: Bullies And The Bullies Who Bully Them
Original at ThreatsWatch.Org
• Fri, Feb 23
By Steve Schippert Today, both past and present presidents of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, claimed in separate speeches that its critics (ie: the West - primarily the United States) is ‘bullying’ Iran on its nuclear weapons program after the release fo the IAEA report on Iran’...
Opinion: Analyst: No Bully 2
Original at Kotaku
• Thu, Jan 4
By Brian Crecente I agree with Wedbush Morgan Securities' Michael Pachter, but for a different reason. Simply put, Bully was built on the Grand Theft Auto engine and, as I said in my otherwise positive review of the game, that engine is starting to chug. Bully 2 ??? Industry Analyst Says No [Game Politics]
Jack to Crecente: You Are a Hypocrite, Curious
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Oct 24
By Brian Crecente Facing a contempt hearing in a few hours, Jack Thompson sent out a letter to the press explaining how he is the one being bullied over the game Bully. Immediate News Release - October 25, 2006 Is Miami Attorney and Video Game Critic Going to Jail Today for Contempt?
Jack to Crecente: You Are a Hypocrite, Curious
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Oct 24
By Brian Crecente Facing a contempt hearing in a few hours, Jack Thompson sent out a letter to the press explaining how he is the one being bullied over the game Bully. By the way, Bully contains homosexual activities between Jimmy Hopkins and other male students. Is this a great country or what?
First Bully Review Hits...
Original at Kotaku
• Tue, Oct 17
By kotaku.com It is! I pity your losing streak. Even to an egomaniac like you, that's got to be depressing. So now that Bully is out and it turns out that it's remarkably non-violent, I thought I'd help you out by giving you a new tack to take in suing Rockstar. Here's a little snippet I found from Gamebrink's re...
Search results for 'Bully'
Original at Ars Technica
• Mon, Oct 16
MA - Columns Journals Staff Opposable Thumbs August 02, 2005 @ 2:56PM - posted by Ben Kuchera Is Bully the next whipping boy of the industry? Oh Rockstar, can you ... Bully to finally see release tomorrow: now we can stop talking ... Ars Technica all 2 news articles
Judge to Review New Rockstar Game 'Bully'
Original at BetaNews
• Thu, Oct 12
• 5 related articles
A Miami-Dade circuit court judge has ordered Take 2 Interactive -- whose Rockstar Games studio is responsible for the controversial Grand Theft Auto series -- to make available a copy of Rockstar's unreleased game Bully, in order to determine whether it violates nuisance laws.
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Bully: Evolution or Exploitation?
Original at Kotaku
• Fri, Aug 11
By Brian Crecente As a troublesome schoolboy, you'll laugh and cringe as you stand up to bullies, get picked on by teachers, play pranks on malicious kids, win or lose the girl, and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of the fictitious reform school, Bullworth Academy."