PETA attacks Take-Two over Ringling Bros. on Wii

by David Hinkle { May 13th 2009 at 5:00PM }

Take-Two's upcoming Ringling Bros. game for Wii and DS looks to recreate all of the stuff you'd see at a real-life circus show. And that's why PETA hates it so much.

In a blog post, PETA sends out a call to arms, asking folks to send Ben Feder, Take-Two's CEO, an email asking him to cease and desist development on the game. In fact, PETA already did most of the work for you by filling out the subject line and body of your potential email with things we're sure you'd want to say to the CEO of a multi-million dollar company.

Tags: peta, ringling-bros, take-two

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

Slayer @ May 13th 2009 5:04PM

It's a fucking video game.

Opprobrius Maximus @ May 13th 2009 5:06PM

It's just a video game - that contains smiling black men and elephants. It can only go downhill.

Jason Statham (Aka Vegeta) @ May 13th 2009 5:09PM

SMILING BLACK MEN???

Well that, my good man, is racist. I am offended.

ArchGamer @ May 13th 2009 5:11PM

@ Jason

You're African American? Here I was thinking you were British...

Duke @ May 13th 2009 5:17PM

Guys, whenever Ringling Bros. does anything PETA pitches a fit - so nobody should be shocked that its over a game this time around. If it was RB brand anything PETA would scream.

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ May 13th 2009 5:23PM

Racist summabitch

Duke @ May 13th 2009 5:25PM

I'm going to assume that wasn't aimed at me.

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ May 13th 2009 5:26PM

come on duke...you said nothing that can even be REMOTELY seen as racist...lol...of course it wasnt directed at you....

Jake B @ May 13th 2009 5:27PM

I have no problem with being called white, in fact, I would prefer it to Irish-American.

pumkin54 @ May 13th 2009 5:38PM

@ArchGamer
British people can't be black??

Duke @ May 13th 2009 5:47PM

Yeah I was just kidding with ya.

Anticrawl @ May 13th 2009 5:59PM

I'm sure PETA would have a field day with Dragon Age if this upset em, what with all the animal killing.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/49052.html

Mmmmm blood and violence.

ArchGamer @ May 13th 2009 6:04PM

@ pumpkin54

Yes, but I don't think Jason Statham is black, at least in appearance.

Brodo @ May 13th 2009 10:20PM

ummm... I feel really sorry for anyone who owns this game.
I dont care which age, i still feel bad

FantomRedux @ May 14th 2009 3:21PM

@ArchGamer

Because all black people are African-American, even the ones who have never been to America.

They're called black people for the same reason white people are called white people.

G-Anderton @ May 13th 2009 5:06PM

is it just me or did this disappear 3 seconds after being posted only to be re-posted another 3 seconds later?

Jake B @ May 13th 2009 5:07PM

It's the magic of the Stiq.
Also, you can't delete your comments, another magical element of the Stiq.

The Dark Wayne @ May 13th 2009 5:20PM

that's just to keep stupid assholes from covering their tracks when they fuck up

ssuk @ May 13th 2009 6:49PM

Also known as the "Edit" button.

cknblade @ May 13th 2009 5:06PM

Why would People for Eating Tasty Animals be against the circus...

Jason Statham (Aka Vegeta) @ May 13th 2009 5:10PM

What you did there...

I see it.

Pimliconite @ May 13th 2009 5:07PM

When does that 'mexican zombie zoo massacre' game from High Voltage come out?

Cena @ May 13th 2009 5:08PM

Lol PeTA fails again.

ArchGamer @ May 13th 2009 5:10PM

We need a version PETA in order to stop PETA.

EMaster @ May 13th 2009 5:13PM

We can call it MEATA: Members Eating All The Animals

NaeemTHM @ May 13th 2009 5:13PM

This?

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

Zantac @ May 13th 2009 5:15PM

PETA: People for the Extermination of reTarded Animal-rights-activists.

ArchGamer @ May 13th 2009 5:18PM

@ Zantac

I'd follow that notion to ends of the earth.

NaeemTHM @ May 13th 2009 5:18PM

"We can call it MEATA: Members Eating All The Animals"

No, we'll still call it PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals

Just to piss them off.

cobakka @ May 13th 2009 5:38PM

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sponsor

Jason Statham (Aka Vegeta) @ May 13th 2009 5:10PM

Oh PETA. It's kind of cute how desperate they are to get attention.

WiredKnight @ May 13th 2009 8:43PM

Can we have the name of the article changed to just "PETA Attacks"?

EMaster @ May 13th 2009 5:11PM

I think Peta needs to Relax and have a nice warm, toasted roast beef Sub from subway and forget about everything..... oh wait. Thee the reason PETA is so angry and vengeful all the time is because they are Vegans. Which means they are missing some essential vitamins and minerals in their diet they have to take in pill form. I heard Iron deficiency does that to ppl. Makes 'em moody.

Hydrophobicfish @ May 13th 2009 5:37PM

Peta are retarded idiots, there's no question about that.

But just because they're retarded doesn't give people who oppose them the right to be so too.
The simple fact that they're vegans doesn't alter their mood/mentality enough to make them behave the way they do. Iron deficiency is not a common problem among non-carnivorous people, Iron is very common among a lot of plant life (and for the record, protein is too, even moreso common).
On top of which, you say they take it in pill form (thus getting it) but they have a deficiency of it?

Come on... don't fight retards with more retardation... fight it with information.

RedSonRising @ May 13th 2009 5:13PM

peta is a joke. what little good that group does is undone every time they 'protest' something stupid. IMO theyve lost focus and spend more time trying to generate publicity for the organization than the causes they 'believe in".

B3astofthe3ast @ May 13th 2009 5:16PM

I'd say you hit the nail on the head. +1

AsherR @ May 13th 2009 5:23PM

They seem to enjoy spending more time generating money. They get huge donations from celebs and then right off the celebs for having practices that they are against. They also put 95% of the animals they took into their shelter asleep.

Hypocricts. Not only do they encourage radical destruction and implied killing of humans, the bastards kill animals themselves. In 2000, the head of PETA said that the shelter they run could be a no-kill shelter. Then why isn't it? Because it costs too much money even though they bring a ton of celeb money in for their asinine cause.

Sorry, I'm raging today. I hate these super hypocritical bastards.

Mitsuo @ May 13th 2009 7:02PM

@asher

It could be a no-kill shelter. They just send the animals they want to kill off to some other site. THUS the shelter it self is "no-kill"

NaeemTHM @ May 13th 2009 5:13PM

This is all I have to say:

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/258

"WASHINGTON DC – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills an average of 5.8 pets every day at its Norfolk, VA headquarters."

Yeah...go fuck yourselves Peta.

charlie b. @ May 13th 2009 5:26PM

really, after that, what more can be said?

Chris D.(PSN: Aggie_CEO | XBL:The Aggie CEO | Steam: Aggie_CEO @ May 13th 2009 5:28PM

Gat Dayum!!!

ummmm yea why ARE they still talking?? they killed more Dogs than Mike Vick

Squoze @ May 13th 2009 5:16PM

This game is a day one purchase now.

John Perkins @ May 13th 2009 5:33PM

Agreed. I may buy it simply because PETA is against it. Maybe it will be my donation to Child's Play this year.

NathanGodfrey @ May 13th 2009 5:34PM

Really? Enjoy your $50 horrible waggle-based minigame collection. That'll learn'em.

BlaqueBeird @ May 13th 2009 8:09PM

@Nathan

I think you're missing the point. Try to keep up.

NathanGodfrey @ May 14th 2009 7:57AM

I completely get "voting with your dollar". What I don't get is paying a premium for casual tripe. Though I'm glad in this economy you have the expendable income to make purchases as invisible gestures. And yes, I realize no one actually will buy this game as a statement, this is just internet-anonymity fueled braggadocio, making this and my earlier comment, moot.