1Up: Topless Women in Oblivion

1Up has a NSFW video of the topless Oblivion mod: Oblivion Women Go Topless.

The mod author took the release and made it a platform for his own thoughts on the game industry: "Please note, this is a realistic nudity mod, not a pornographic one. The file included removes the bra welded to the skin of females of all races, showing things as most people know they are in the real world after removing upper body clothing. It will not show every female in the game as topless. I do this because I hate government/society/whatever forcing companies to 'protect our innocent population from seeing those evil dirty things 50% of them posess personally anyways' not because I'm trying to turn it into a porn game."

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Link of the Day: VirtuaGirls

Today's link:

Adult Link

VirtuaGirls 2

In the event your desktop was not cluttered enough, Virtua Girls 2 puts a stripper right on your desktop. A free demo is available on their site.

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April 05, 2006

The Kingdom Hearts Vibrator

No, really.

Japanese sex toy shop Pop Life Department M's are selling a Kingdom Hearts Branded "Rabbit" vibrator. The vibrator comes in a silver, reflective color that may or may not have something to do with the game.

I just have no idea what to say here.

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IGDA Members: VOTE! Board of Director Elections

The IGDA is currently holding elections for its board of directors. We need you as IGDA members to get in there and vote!

Who's running? Check it out here.

Ready to vote? Go here.

Not an IGDA member? Join! They sponsor this blog and support developers all over the world.

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Casual Sex is a Turn Off for "Modern Women"

According to a study from Dr. Sharron Hinchliff of the University of Sheffield (and reported on here) , women are turned off by casual sex:

“They argued that women who have casual sex or one-night stands do it not because they are sexually liberalised, but because they have ‘lost control’ on alcohol or drugs or because there is ‘something lacking’ in their lives. They pitied these women and they saw it as deviant behaviour,” Dr Hinchliff said.

This has the potential for interesting design applications for makers of MMOEGs and others who hope to facilitate the emergent sex in their MMOs. Whether or not these findings hold true in virtual worlds is another matter, but it could suggest the need for systems that take MMOEGs to another level where relationship development can - and is encouraged - to occur.

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Clean Sheets: Interview with Violet Blue

Cleansheets has an interview with Violet Blue up on its site: Future Fucks: Are You Ready for Your Close-up?

The closest a consumer might get in the near future to immersion cybersex with strangers (or computer generated porn performers) is the very possible mix of something like the visual online game Second Life coupled with teledildonics (remote control of sex toys over the Web) and force-feedback sensory technology. It's all out there, but no one's put it together...yet.

In the interview, she references a site of fellow Sex SIG member: www.slashdong.org.

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GamePolitics: Harvard vs. ESRB

Over at GamePolitics, there's an interesting interview brawl going on between the ESRB and Harvard researchers.

Harvard released a study whose results showed the following:

Although the Entertainment Software Rating Board content descriptors for violence and blood provide a good indication of such content in the game, we identified 45 observations of content that could warrant a content descriptor in 29 games (81%) that lacked these content descriptors. M-rated video games are significantly more likely to contain blood, profanity, and substances; depict more severe injuries to human and nonhuman characters; and have a higher rate of human deaths than video games rated T (for "teen").

This didn't sit well with the ESRB who fired off a statement:

The study released today by Harvard's School of Public Health and Associate Professor Kimberly M. Thompson simply confirms what most parents and gamers already know - that games rated M (Mature 17+) have content that is not suitable for younger players.

There's tons more on GamePolitics...