A new rating from The Taiwan Digital Game Rating Committee for Bully has surfaced online for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Bully first launched on October 17, 2006 for the PlayStation 2.  This may suggest that a new version of the game will launch on modern platforms. A remastered version of the game, called Scholarship Edition, launched on 4 March 2008 for Xbox 360 and Wii, and on 21 October 2008 for PC. The game is currently available on PC via Steam and PlayStation 4. In Bully, you play “as a mischievous teenager, Jimmy Hopkins, you’ll stand up to bullies, take on the liars, cheats, and snobs who are the most popular members of the student body and faculty at Bullworth Academy.”

Bully details via Rockstar:

The Rockstar tradition of groundbreaking, original gameplay, and tongue-in-cheek storytelling invades the schoolyard.

As a mischievous teenager, Jimmy Hopkins, you’ll stand up to bullies, take on the liars, cheats, and snobs who are the most popular members of the student body and faculty at Bullworth Academy — the corrupt and crumbling prep school with an uptight façade — and ultimately learn to navigate the obstacles of life in the worst school around.

If you can survive the school year and outsmart your rivals, you could rule the school.

Bully: Scholarship Edition 

Bully: Scholarship Edition takes place at the fictional New England boarding school, Bullworth Academy, and tells the story of mischievous 15-year-old Jimmy Hopkins as he goes through the hilarity and awkwardness of adolescence. Beat the jocks at dodge ball, play pranks on the preppies, save the nerds, kiss the girl and ultimately navigate the social hierarchy in the worst school around.

Includes the complete soundtrack, featuring 26 original tracks.

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Hodnocení však pravděpodobně souvisí se zařazením titulu do katalogu GTA+, nikoli s jeho opětovným vydáním, ve které mnozí doufají.

Rockstar Games má ve svém katalogu spoustu titulů, u kterých oddaní fanoušci doufají, že se po letech dočkají dalších dílů, a Bully je jistě na vrcholu tohoto seznamu. Zajímavé je, že poslední vývoj zřejmě naznačuje jisté známky života pro dlouho spící IP, i když možná ne tak, jak mnozí doufali.

Hra Bully, na kterou upozornil server Gematsu, byla nedávno na Tchaj-wanu hodnocena pro konzole Xbox Series X/S, PS5, Xbox One, PS4 a PC. Předpoklad, který mnohé okamžitě napadne, je, že se možná chystá remaster, remake nebo nějaká reedice, i když by bylo lepší nedělat si příliš velké naděje.

A proč tomu tak je? Začátkem tohoto měsíce společnost Rockstar Games oznámila, že hra Bully se 20. srpna připojí ke knihovně her nabízených předplatitelům služby GTA+. Je pravděpodobné, že s tím souvisí i tato čerstvá věková hodnocení. Není to zrovna oživení, v jaké fanoušci Bully doufali, ale je to něco.

Článek Bully hodnoceno na Tchaj-wanu pro PS5, Xbox řady X/S a další konzole se nejdříve objevil na GAME PRESS.

Rockstar Games co-founder and Grand Theft Auto writer and producer Dan Houser is hard at work on a new game with his new studio, Absurd Ventures. And we think we know a little more about what that game looks like, including its setting, which is a new sci-fi universe the …

Usually when you hear the term “trademark bully” tossed around, it’s done so either by members of the media, such as us here at Techdirt, or by defense attorneys making a point before the court. In the case of The Florida Virtual School, however, that moniker was given to the company by the judge that ruled against it in a trademark dispute with another company that offers virtual schooling.

FLVS, as the company commonly goes by, sued an organization called K12 at the time, since rebranded as Stride, for trademark infringement. The two companies initially settled a 2015 trademark suit surrounding the latter’s use of branding for its services as “Florida Virtual Schooling.” Now, I would have argued at the time that such a term is purely descriptive and couldn’t possibly be trademark infringement, but, alas, a settlement was reached so we never got to see a test of that argument in court. But then came the 2020 lawsuit brought by FLVS over equally descriptive terms Stride is using.

The virtual school said it sued again in 2020 because it thought K12 breached that 2015 agreement when it started a virtual program called the Florida Online School with the small Hendry County school district in southwest Florida in 2019. In filing the lawsuit, FLVS noted that K12 was advertising “Florida virtual schooling” on its website, which it viewed as a violation of the previous agreement, and using a blue color scheme similar to the virtual school’s on its website.

The virtual school, Fitch said, is required by law to protect its intellectual property. It filed the 2020 lawsuit “to protect against K12’s repeated infringement on FLVS trademarks, which deliberately blurred the lines between the two organizations and caused confusion for Florida students and families,” she wrote.

Again, this is a purely descriptive mark. It’s not trademark infringement. Despite that, FLVS reportedly spent well over $2 million to bring the suit, all of which ended in defeat for FLVS. And not just defeat, but defeat combined with a scathing rebuke from the judge.

Presnell’s ruling in Stride’s favor in January came just after the case hit the three-year mark. He called the virtual school’s claims “feeble” in his order and wrote that the school, sometimes called by its acronym FLVS, had presented “no credible evidence” that K12 infringed on its trademarks or confused parents looking for virtual classes for their children, as it alleged.

Instead, Florida’s virtual school behaved like a “trademark bully” in pursuing the case, he added.

It’s nice to see the court call out the behavior of a trademark bully for what it is: trademark bullying. And, after $2 million plus dollars spent on this nonsense and a beat-down of a judgement in the case, you would have thought that FLVS would have learned its lesson and slinked away.

Instead, the company is going to appeal the ruling and spend even more money on this loser of a case.

The virtual school filed its notice of appeal on Feb. 12 and also asked Presnell to hold off a ruling on Stride’s request for sanctions, which it said “lacks merit.”

It certainly doesn’t lack merit if the lower court’s ruling holds up. The claims made in the original suit are thin to the point of being comical. And, in the case of suits like this being filed when competent attorneys should know better, legal fees ought to absolutely be on the table.

More to the point, I can’t imagine why the continued expense to FLVS to carry on with this nonsense makes even the slightest bit of business sense. Here’s to another scathing ruling in the very near future.