Numerous media outlets are reporting that a user-created modification for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which supposedly unlocks hidden sex content within the game has prompted an investigation by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Game-modder Patrick Wildenborg created the "hot coffee" mod that he claims merely opens up access to existing sex mini-games. If true, the ESRB could upgrade the Mature rating for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to Adults Only--a category that only a tiny fraction of games falls into, and which retailers are reluctant to sell.

According to the Associated Press (via sfgate.com), David Walsh of the National Institute on the Media and the Family mused "Can you imagine the impact of 13-, 14- and 15-year-old boys literally enacting this [sexual] scene?" Uh, no, sorry. I don't imagine teenage boys in such scenes. Walsh's spicy scenario might be a concern if 13-, 14- and 15-year-old video game nerds could actually get a girlfriend.