More bad news for Take Two today. The developer of Manhunt 2 learned this week that the title was to be prohibited from sale in the U.K. and had received the retail-kiss-of-death AO (Adults Only) rating by the ESRB in the U.S.

Well before you can say “Hillary Clinton’s theme song sucks and Celine Dion isn’t even an American“, the word from the Sony and Nintendo camps is that they will not license the title with an AO rating. So now, as Take Two faces the difficult decision of whether to release the title as-is, or embark on very costly editing…. we wait to see what happens.

It’s a good thing we have people to dictate morality for us.

The setback couldn’t come at a worse time for the financially beleaguered Take Two. Let’s hope they find a way out of this mess.

Finally an exclusive title for the 360 that Microsoft won’t have to pay for!

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