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No Need To Import Heavy Rain In America
Americans who prefer to play uncensored games had to import the European version of the last video game developed by the makers of 2010 PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain. So did fans of sex scenes. More »Happy Holidays From The Sims 3
EA's Top 10 Reasons to Give The Sims 3 this Holiday video shows that its much easier to get away with arson, peeping, murder, and sleeping with your friends mom in The Sims 3. How festive! More »Saboteur Developer Draws Line Between In-Game Nudity, In-Game Sex
The Saboteur, EA's game about aiding the French resistance against the Nazis, has optional in-game nudity, but only alludes to actual sex. It's an obvious distinction, but not one often discussed by those who discuss mature content in games. More »Jimmy Kimmel Looks At Gay Sex In Dragon Age
Remember kids: In America, kissing a male elf, eyebrows raised, but killing a male elf, a-okay. More »Their Bodies, Our Games
That picture above poses an interesting question to Massively's Seraphina Brennan. Why, she wonders, is the knee-jerk reaction to get bent out of shape about a buxom, indiscreetly clothed woman in a video game, but not a ripped, stripped-to-the-waist man? More »EA: Confusion About Mature Content In Games Starts With "Over-40 Crowd"
How old do you have to be to not get that games aren't just for kids? 40, according to EA. Though not everyone over 40 is guilty of that. Sound right? More »Dragon Age Girls Do It With Their Undies On
Breaking Down the Sex in Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Origins has got boinkin' - we knew that already. With copies out to reviewers, one guy has provided a mostly spoiler-free look at all the sex-having, which he says begins "around hour 60." So it's just like dating! More »Forced to Strip: How Games Might Teach Us More About Sex
The upcoming Heavy Rain features a sequence in which its female protagonist is forced to strip for a disgusting mob boss. It's sex but it's not sexy, and it moves the needle for games teaching us to differentiate the two. More »Bootlegged Virtual Sex Toys Get Second Life Sued
Yep. If Second Life's involved, how could sex toys not also be involved? A manufacturer of, uh, intimacy aids has filed a lawsuit alleging that users bootleg, with impunity, the virtual sex toy brand it also sells in Second Life. More »Wear Sexy Costumes, Drink Soda, Play Nintendo Wii
Ah, yes. Love hotels. Places of afternoon trysts or tawdry evening getaways. It's not enough to simply offer customers a place to get down. Love hotels need more. More »Sex as a Commodity, Women as Achievements
Mass Effect is a sophisticated, acclaimed video game. It took uninformed flak for its sex scene, which gamers defended as a mature portrayal of the act. But it's not that different from the depiction of sex in many other games. More »Alpha Protocol: More Sex Than Mass Effect, More Interrogations Than Fallout 3
A brief look at Alpha Protocol yesterday brought to mind how what may be the western-made role-playing-game time-sink of this fall compares to some recent big ones. A quartet of love scenes is but one difference. More »Sex Scene of the Year Already Awarded
By Edge, anyway. They're saying that an underworld Overlord II foursome takes the cake, precisely for what it does not show. More »Game Characters Looking for Love in All the Creepy Places
Game characters putting ads on Craigslist personals? Why, that idea sounds familiar. Asylum wrote ads from Solid Snake, GLaDOS and others, trolling for replies. Wait til you see what someone wrote to the Little Sister. More »Virtual Golf Hookers
Seoul's Metropolitan Police Agency have been targeting "screen golf" rooms that mix driving range golf with a virtual video-game-type screens. Some of these golf rooms sell alcohol and employ female entertainers in mini-skirts. More »Olivia Munn's Playboy Cover Looks Like This
Attack of the Show! host Olivia Munn is the "Babe of the Month" for Playboy, appearing in a non-nude pictorial and on the cover. We knew that. More »E3's Lone Porn Star Is Eyeing a Wii
Plenty of video game developers have booth babes on hand at this year's E3 to add a little sizzle to their games, but only Codemasters has an award-winning porn star in attendance. More »Gonzo Adult Flick, Japanese Game Center
After tackling such Japanese adult video mainstays as classrooms and offices, gonzo pornography maker "Hunter" has taken its naughty, low-budget guerilla filmmaking to arcades. More »Codemasters' Dirt 2 Teaser A Bit Dirtier Than Expected
I'm not quite sure what a nearly naked woman taking a shower and cooking pork parts has to do with anything, but I suddenly feel like a little off-road racing. More »Microsoft Sued Over Gay Bashing
According to a former employee of Lionhead Studios, being openly gay at a Microsoft-owned development studio can be just as bad as having an openly gay Xbox Live gamertag. More »