GamesRadar has an amusing tribute to one of the most indispensable classes in the GTA franchise, the hooker. I'll have you know — this is written with as serious a face I can muster — I've never killed one. Ever. I consider it a point of pride that I never, even to see the outcome, lowered myself to the top-of-mind stereotype everyone has of a GTA gamer. Nor do I kill the cops. Unless I have 3 stars and have been separated from a burning vehicle. But I digress.

GamesRadar's beauty pageant covers the ladies of the previous three titles, complete with screengrabs and pulled quotes. Funny Bunny is tattooed on my mind from the hours spent combing VIce City for special packages. And for Contestant 10, I mean this in the nicest way, I dated a woman who had a similar hairstyle and I recall both fondly. And fondlingly.

So, here they are, Misses Liberty City, Vice City, Los Santos, Las Venturas, San Fierro, etc. ...

Grand Theft Radar: Hooker Beauty Contest

Let's see how many literary references I can cram into one post about hookers, shall we?

A tittilating and timorous tip just fluttered into the ol' Kotaku carrier pigeon hutch, courtesy of the man they call Adam. Get the gentleman a comment account.

According to a globetrotting member of the FAZED Forums, at least one high-class Swiss brothel is in possession of a strange device that can only be one thing. "Bashturn", almost certainly a distant and more successful cousin of the Kotaku Bashcrafts, utters:

Add all this to the fact that this entire house is designed to entertain men. Pool tables, big screen TVs, comfiest couches in the world, even a Nintendo console not even on the market yet (Buggy to the point of gathering dust, so I was told). The entire house is designed so that you want to stay an extra day.

Emphasis mine. The rest of the thread is decidedly un-game-related, but still vastly intriguing. I may be addressing the wrong audience here, but if any of you have read Nabokov's Ada, you may remember the series of extremely classy bordellos that Van Veen opens across the globe. The Swiss establishment in question sounds exactly like one of these franchises. Either this Bashturn is a modern-day Munchausen, or he's rocking it James Bond style.

Crap, I think that was only two. I'll do better next time. Eliza gauger

Read whole thread here. [FAZED]