It's not just straight-up porn, either. The tease is everywhere. Booth babes. IGN babes. Wii Fit Girl. Bikini models playing Guitar Hero. Jo Garcia. Tera Patrick sexing up Saint's Row. And this freaking site, of course. So I'm not coming to you remonstratively, or remorsefully even. Geeks are no strangers to porn, but I'm wondering if posing a nude girl in the act of sharing your interests — on a giant 20-sided die, humping a Halo helmet — represents an emotional tease that is more powerful than the most explicit picture could ever hope for. Especially since we are, as a class, very easy to separate from our disposable income.

Because that's what this is about, monetizing the tease. (Granted, this post could be said to do the same.) Gamer Fetish, for example, is a cookie-cutter free-porn blog — 10 free pics, link to the for-pay provider, and hope that the subject trips your trigger enough that you'll beg (read: pay $19.95) for more. Even at tiny conversion rates, that kind of subscription charge allows the paysites to throw off enough dough to make sites like Gamer Fetish worth the bother. The site's tone, of course, is to read like your standard geek-interest blog. But the banner ads and the links to paysites are unmistakable in intent.

I'd also argue that this genre encourages its consumers to see nudie pics in a context other than porn, and on some level regard them as more socially acceptable. Not, like, share-them-with-your-8-year-old-cousin acceptable. But a nude woman engaged in a sex act, well, we know where that lives on our hard drive and its not exactly something we're proud to own. This, hey, we're gamers, and there's video game stuff in the frame. It's funny! It's cute! It's the kind of thing I'd feel like I could leave laying around to provoke my girlfriend and not suffer too badly if she was offended.

As for the hardcore stuff, like World of Whorecraft or Rage of Bonan don't think a movie like that appeals to your standard porn connoisseur, who's plunking down his dough for things titled [Random Sex Act]#22, whose production values need to go no further than a bed in a Public Storage garage. These things cost money to make and need a business case to get funding. As Nadine Strosser of the ACLU observed, porn isn't 10 perverts spending a billion dollars a year. People are paying for it. Foot fetishists pay for foot fetish porn. It would follow that geeks and gamers paying for geek and gamer porn.

My question: Do you? Because I have a theory that around 100 percent of you will say no. And if that's the case, either we're a cut above all the other gamers in terms of morality and supression of instant gratification, or geek porn is heavily overinvested and/or oversaturated and will bankrupt itself soon. Which do you think is more likely?

This is Pretty Much the Hottest Thing Ever [Gamerfetish.com, via Polygamia, very NSFW]

More than just people having sex in costume, "Rage of Bonan" actually recreates the very first quest in the game, which involves rescuing a bound, scantily dressed woman by killing a nearby enemy for the key to her shackles. Granted the woman in the game was blonde and it doesn't actually end with a sex scene...though I am sure it did in the minds of many of the males and not a few of the females who played through it.

Hit the jump for a gallery of pics from the clip that isn't very safe for work at all, as well as information on how you can be a part of Whorelore's new Conan fixation.

The actors in the above gallery are AVN Performer of the year Evan Stone and his real life girlfriend, Syren (possibly not her real name), so those of you who enjoy your pornography with a little personal involvement between the participants should get a kick out of that.

The Whorelore folks are so excited about Conan (you could tell before the NSFW fish showed up) that they've created their own guild in the game. They are currently taking applications at www.whoreloreguild.com. From the website:

Whore Lore is a guild of dedicated gamers with years of experience in MMOs and other games. We will be focused on both PVP and PVE and crushing content.

Not sure how I'd feel about having WhoreLore over my head everywhere I went in game, though I'm sure I've had worse.

Be sure to check out Crecente's exhaustive feature on all things World of Whorecraft / Whorelore related in case you need to figure out how exactly we got to this point. They recently released the episode featuring the "Holy Paladin" from those initial shots, though I've a feeling her holiness will be coming into question over the course of the story.

Whorelore Season 2 Episode 4 [Official Site]

What sword was Fahey holding when he cracked the icy throne of Blizzard?

World of Whorecraft, renamed Whorecraft and now, oddly enough, Whorelore, is back for its second season. For those of you who missed our feature on this blending of hardcore pornography and World of Warcraft, you should probably read the story, it's really quite fascinating.

Dez, the series producer, dropped me a line today to say that Whorelore will continue into next year with a second season, the first episode of which features female elf-on-elf sex and your typical follow up, inter-racial human-on-elf sex scene. Not content to stick with just prosthetic ears and a bit of handmade weapons and armor, the series has added honest to goodness special effect to the mix this time around.

I remain more intrigued than tantalized by the prospect of pornography made for an audience of gamers, even the more mainstream gamers that make up the World of Warcraft fanbase. What I wonder is if the attraction to something like these videos would come from some sort of elf fetish or if it's really about carrying over the fantasy of an MMO or RPG into the real world and that the sex thing is almost an aside.

Hit the jump for some NSFW pics and a school of happily nesting Kotaku pointing fish.

By: Brian Crecente

The first episode almost didn't happen.

A two mile hike up the steep hills of the scrub and rock strewn wilds of Topanga State Park in 108 degree weather exhausted the female star, and the male star, burdened down with 60 pounds of faux plate and chain mail during the hike, was about to pass out.

"It was a nightmare," says the film's producer Dez. "They were both almost passing out, we didn't bring enough water and the only shade was next to these little boulders."

But the two stars mustered enough strength to film 35 minutes of sword fight before having nearly as much sex.

Geek porn may have not been born out there under that sweltering August sun, but it was most certainly conceived there.

And Dez was around to capture it on video: Two porn stars, one dressed as a thief, the other as a fighter, acting out one of dungeons and dragons longest running jokes: Rogues do it from behind.

Speaking to me earlier this month, Dez laughs at the title of the Premiere Whorecraft episode.

"Yeah, I know," he says, when I point out that the title shares a name with a pretty popular t-shirt slogan. "I had to do it."

Since filming that first episode last year, Dez has produced five more episode of Whorecraft, a send up to massively multiplayer online gaming that seem to share, at times, distinct similarities to World of Warcraft.

Dez, an enthusiastic gamer and self-admitted World of Warcraft addict, says he'd been playing around with the idea of creating a series of movies based on fantasy massively multiplayer games for a couple of years.

"I've been playing D and D and have been a huge gamer all of my life, since back in the days of Golden Axe, and I just felt it was time for something new," he said.

On Plot, Acting and Bears
Dez started in the porn business as an agent, then segued into making the films (he's performed in more than 600 movies) before finally shifting to directing. After putting out 60 movies, he decided it was time to persue his concept piece.

"People have made medieval porn and stuff, but no one has ever done the more creative aspects of fantasy gaming, like elves and knights," he said.

And Dez was sure there would be a market for it.

"People play these games and see these sexy elves, but they don't ever get to see the elves have sex," he said. "A lot of people try to roleplay in the game, but I decided to bring it out into the real world and do it right."

The six episodes, which range from 19 to 30 minutes long each, have logged a total of 20,000 purchases and about five times as many bit torrents, something Dez says he can't profit from or control.

Since filming that first short episode in the state park, Dez has concentrated on making his movies more plot driven and episodic in nature. He's even taken to having women from previous episodes appear for a short talking role as actresses only. Something nearly unheard of in the porn industry.

"All of the episodes link with each other, so we have reoccurring characters and that's really hard to do in the porn industry, it has such a fast burn-out rate," he said. "And very few actresses are actresses in our industry. They are not used to role-playing or acting they are used to going to the porn set and doing there thing then leaving."

Dez's movies also take much longer to film because they have so many non-sex scenes.

"With most porn it's like in one day you shoot five scenes and then you're done," he said. "These episodes take two weeks to film and then another week in post production."

And while the films are still most certainly hardcore porn, they do include some nice touches, like weapons and armor crafted just for the films, choreographed fight scenes, and in one of the episodes, a bear.

"That was two days of shooting, just to get the bear comfortable around everybody and it was a nightmare to do," Dez said, laughing. "The guy we rented the bear from, he did the tigers in the movie Gladiator. He's the body double for Russell Crowe, he's actually in episode four."

And it won't stop with bears, upcoming episodes will feature blue screen work with a dragon, perhaps, or maybe real tigers.

"The skies the limit for this stuff," he said. "Initially it was just for gamers, but I think we're attracting more and more people not into games now."

The Porn WoW Guild
While Mia Rose, an up and coming porn starlet who appeared in the second and third episodes of Whorecraft, has been too busy to do any recent episodes, Dez says she will be making a return.

In the meantime, another rising star, british porn actress Hannah Harper, is teaming up with Dez to star in his next movie and, perhaps, help him write it.

"I've always enjoyed that part of the industry," Harper said. "I've always liked working on the scripts, dressing up, setting up the fantasy. I did theater back in college in England."

While Harper hadn't played World of Warcraft before agreeing to work with Dez, she has since become a full-blown addict.

"The last video game I played with was Mario Brothers when I was nine," she said. "But my boyfriend and Dez have been playing World of Warcraft for about two years. I could never stand the appeal."

Harper decided to check the game out when the Burning Crusade expansion pack was released.

"I started playing when Burning Crusade came out and I got completely hooked," she said. "I played 15 hours straight, it was all weekend."

And like many hardcore gamers, she can't really explain her obsession.

"Friends of mine have asked me what do you do, what is so great about the game. I don't know. But I dream about it now."

Harper says she plays with her boyfriend, Dez and a few other porn stars. She plays a Blood Elf Priest "because they stand back a bit in combat."

When she started the game, every time someone attacked her she would panic and die. Now she knows to stick close to her guildmates, who are all close to level 70.

Harper points out that despite her late start in the game she's built up her character to level 26... one bar from 27.

"Initially I was doing the movie out of friendship to Dez, but as soon as I started playing the game I was like 'Oh my god, I have to do this,'" she said. "I can't sleep at night because I think about all of the things that could transfer so easily from the game to the movie."

From RPG to FPS
Dez insists that Whorecraft is a product of love, not money. He is a huge fan of the game and this is his way of showing that.

I've talked to my share of people pretending to be gamers, and Dez didn't strike me as one of those.

It's telling that when Dez received a cease and desist letter from Vivendi he seemed more worried about the possibility of losing his four high level characters than he was about any possible suit.

"I'm sure it's fair use, but I don't want to rock any boats," he said. "It's no biggie so I changed the name of the movies... I don't want to lose my characters, I've got two probably worth $5,000."

Now that Whorecraft's popularity seems to be taking off, Dez is exploring other games ripe for porn renditions.

His next geek porn project, he says, will be a a first-person shooter film that is "kind of counter-strikish."

"We're going to have demolitions experts on hand, guns firing blank rounds, I even have a member of the LA SWAT Team who's going to help," he said. We are really going to do it. It's going to be hot."

"I'm having more fun doing this than the straight up gonzo porn," he said. "I could have made some website, put some swords on it and then had some chicks blowing people and it would have done great. But that's not why I'm doing this. I'm doing this because it's cool and people dig it."

As promised the Whorecraft piece ran this morning and seemed to attract quite a bit of attention. For the record, I am neither into elf sex nor bdsm. I just found the collision of two niche cultures (WoW and porn) fascinating. I am sure that for some of our readers out there, it was like waking up to discover we had mixed an entire jar of peanut butter into a vat of milky chocolate.

Beside the porn story and the NSFW pictures, here's what else was happening today.
McWhertor's Dice Plans, if he survives the Nevada desert
Get your voice in Halo 3
This is a cool idea for reviewing games
France sucks

Last night, for the first time in a long while, I sat down and watched some television. I ended up gorging on DVRed episodes of The Unit, which is like GRAW on TV.

This morning my wife asked who I was talking to all night.
"Myself?" I asked.
"What were you watching because you were laughing a lot?"
"The... Unit..."
Very long, uncomfortable silence.
Hey, I can't help it, I laugh at everything just look at my IMs.

You've seen these exclusive Kotaku pictures of Hannah Harper if you read my feature on the people behind the episodic porn movies roughly based on the World of Warcraft. But I also received a batch of very not safe for work images. Since I'm such a prude about such things, I asked our porn friendly brother site Fleshbot to do their magic with the story and host the images as well as links to their previous coverage of starlet Hannah Harper.

Click on the link, but don't yell at me when you get fired/divorced/aroused. Brian Crecente

Exclusive: Hannah Harper Does Whorecraft [Fleshbot]

Waking up to yet another legal threat from Jack is never fun, let alone the half-dozen emails we exchanged throughout the day. He still hasn't explained how the story is wrong or given me comments to include in the story. Oh well, my ball, his court.

I don't think I mentioned it, but my retail Xbox 360 died on me again recently. Counting debug 360s, number six arrived in the mail today. I need to unbox it. I sense that it is scared.

I told Jason over at Giz about it and he asked what the hell I was doing to them. From our IM:

Jason: wtf? Me: i know Jason: I think I play as much as you and i'm still on my first one Me: im into rough play, apparently Jason: Yeah you're a monster... Need to come up w/ a safe word Me: ya the safe word is apparently Me: three flashing red lights

ooooh-hoooo, I crack me up. Sigh...Anyway to business.

While you were sleeping:
The real GOTY nominees were announced
Defenestration and suffocation, now with motion control
La Boheme ala PS3

I think McWhertor is leaving for DICE tomorrow... or the next day. Make sure to harass him. I swear I'm going to work on the Whorecraft story tonight... seriously. The nub fell off of my PSP from playing Ratchet and Clank too much...it hasn't stopped me though. That Whorecraft guy said he wanted to send me a bottle of champagne... is it a bad idea to accept bottles from a guy who makes porn for a living?

Peace out... to sleep, well dinner, a book perhaps, maybe some TV and then to sleep!