Anti-Bully protestors swarm Take-Two offices

As the controversy over forthcoming Rockstar title Bully continues, footage of a group of anti-bullying campaigners protesting outside Take-Two's Manhattan offices has appeared online.

In the video, which is available to view via You Tube, members of a group called the Peaceaholics can be heard voicing their disapproval and seen waving placards daubed with slogans such as âSay no to Bullyâ in the background.

A protester explains: "We think itâs very irresponsible for someone to put a game out like this... If youâre coming from where I come from in (Washington) DC, where children get killed in schools and everything, and see people get picked up off the ground with their brains in the street, then you know weâre not exploiting.

"Weâre dealing with real issues, where our children are trained to be animals. Anybody who would do that is just as bad as the terrorists overseas."

According to Rockstar, Bully sees players taking on the role of "a troublesome schoolboy" who will have to "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." The game has already been condemned by numerous anti-bullying groups, along with anti-videogames campaigner and UK MP Keith Vaz.

Bully is due for release in October.