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• Guitar Hero. Then Guitar Hero: World Tour. And Now: Vagina Hero!

  When you think about it, it should have been obvious from the start that a push-button game involving a giant phallus would eventually morph into a push-button game involving a giant vag... Read More... Posted Dec 01 2008, 12:27 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: satire, video games, sex, women, funny, vagina, children, sex life, video game, g spot, guitar hero, orgams

• Speaking of Sex and Video Games...

  Is your husband or boyfriend addicted to video games? Is this putting a strain on your love life? The cleanliness of your home? The well being of your children? Would you like to shove his controller where the sun don't shine and then kick it, hard, just to make sure it's going to stay up there for a while? Wait, wait! There's one last hope. No, no. We're not talking about some new sex video game. (Though that could be fun as long as real sex was somehow involved), we're talking about Rock Band, and how it saved one woman's marriage. Read More... Posted May 28 2008, 05:03 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: marriage, video games, salon, rock band

• Video of the Day: Sex in Video Games

  Via 61 FRAMES PER SECOND: I’m pretty confident that panties were not thrown at Mr. Floyd when he presented this video in his Media Theory class at Savannah College of Art and Design. You can just tell he's no Prince of Love. Passing judgment on relative sexiness aside, Mr. Floyd’s put together an accessible history, analysis, and compelling argument on the future of sex in videogames. The man makes a good point when he says that mature treatments of sexuality must come from game designers themselves. But, truthfully, the people who play games have as much responsibility as designers in introducing thoughtful sexual themes into games. Read more... Posted May 28 2008, 12:12 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: video, video of the day, video games, sex, 61 frames per second

• Link of the Day: Miss Bimbo

  Fox News is throwing a fit over the latest online gaming craze: Miss Bimbo. The site, which teeters between obvious satire and disgraceful manipulation of preadolescent females, is downright nutty on all fronts... Read More... Posted Mar 26 2008, 01:04 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: hotties, fashion, feminism, paris hilton, sluts, video games, young american bodies, awful link, link of the day, bimbos

• Online Video Games Complicate Gender. 'Cause It Was So Simple Before.

  Hey, doesn't it seem like every week we write something with the phrase "New research indicates..."? Well, that's because the world is such a magical place! Ready for it to be even more magical? 'Cause it turns out -- oh, sorry, we mean "'Cause new research indicates..." -- that half of the men and even more of the women playing online games have done the old ding-dong/hoo-hah switch once int a while. The research, in which 125 players of complex computer games were questioned, found that women were more likely to switch their gender than men. Up to 70% of female players said they chose to use male identities while inside internet games, where they are able to design their own characters with any race, gender or appearance. Zaheer Hussain, who co-authored the study, said that subjects gave many different reasons for masquerading as a member of the opposite sex. At least one of them must have been "Because it makes this a whole lot sweeter." Posted Mar 07 2008, 01:41 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: video games, gender roles, little britain, switcheroo, gender

• NSFW Video of the Day: "Japanese girls f*cked while playing Wii"

  We don't normally link directly to a porn site, but holy smoke, we just had to share this with you. Read More... Posted Mar 04 2008, 04:48 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: japan cannot be stopped, video games, Wii, censorship, Japanese girls fucked while playing Wii, Nintendo Wii, jporn, fetishes

• Katamari Cake Makes Us Indescribably Happy, But We Will Still Blog About It

  All right, kids: sometimes we have to write about something entirely sexless. Now is one of those times. Behold the Katamari Damacy birthday cake! Oh, we're positively giddy with videogame nerdness right now! Read More... Posted Feb 28 2008, 04:00 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: video games, flickr, cake, birthdays, katamari damacy

• Video of the Day: "Mass Effect"'s Decidedly Softcore Alien/Lesbian Sex Scene

  This is the scene that got Fox News commentator and self-help author Cooper Lawrence all in a tizzy? Seriously? “I recognize that I misspoke,” she said. “I really regret saying that, and now that I’ve seen the game and seen the sex scenes it’s kind of a joke. “Before the show I had asked somebody about what they had heard, and they had said it’s like pornography,” she added. “But it’s not like pornography. I’ve seen episodes of ‘Lost’ that are more sexually explicit.” Woah woah woah, hold up. They showed alien lady ass on Lost? Damn, dude; miss one episode of that show... Posted Jan 28 2008, 08:00 AM by Bryan Christian with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: video games, fox news, mass effect

• Hey, What's the "Halo 3" Button Combo For Whipping Out Your Junk?

  Any Master Chief wannabes out there? Maybe you can explain the phenomenon known as "teabagging"? We're pretty sure that we know what it means in real life -- as the kids on Kotaku note, we've seen Pecker after all -- but how exactly the hell are you supposed to get your balls out of that 9-foot battle suit? Anyway, the reason we ask is that it sounds like, in at least one case, those anti-video game nuts were right: kids are doing in real-life what they learned about in the virtual one.  A group of boys has been involved in bullying others, and officials said their actions have included physical attacks, taunting and sexually harassing victims by making their crotches touch other boys' heads while fully clothed — something apparently inspired by the Halo video game series, in which players can perform a posturing move over a defeated enemy. So what, in the video game it's like a thing where you stand over their dead body and taunt them with your bathing suit area while calling them names over your headset? Speaking for ourselves, we've never been big "Halo" fans -- Scanner Bryan only got an old school XBox to mod for watching videos and Scanner Emily's banking on the NES making a big comeback -- so if anyone can shed any light on the matter, it would be greatly appreciated. Oh, hold up: a little Googling and we totally get it now. Video after the break. Read More... Posted Jan 25 2008, 03:00 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: teabagging, video games, halo

• "'Grand Theft Auto' For Girls" Probably Won't Replace Solitaire on Our Phones

  Meet Coolest Girl in School, a video game that's being described as "Grand Theft Auto for Girls" and is causing a wee ruckus in Australia and Canada for its tongue-in-cheek mashup of Bully and Confessions of an Heiress. From the designer's website: What does every girl across the globe have in common? At some point, every girl wishes she could be the Coolest Girl in School. Coolest Girl in School lets players live out their high school fantasies. Experiment with fashion! Experiment with drugs! Experiment with your sexuality! Cut class! Spread rumors! But try to avoid dying of embarrassment- literally! Sounds *awesome*, right? Sure, except for one small thing: it's for your phone. YOUR PHONE! You know what Grand Theft Auto on a phone would be? We do. It's called Oregon Trail, and it sure as hell ain't the sprawling, open-ended, rated-M-for-Mature madness that is Grand Theft Auto. Boo hiss, game designers Champagne for the Ladies, for comparing your tiny apple to GTA's groundbreaking orange and getting us all excited over what's basically Zork for Mean Girls. Lady gamers: we know you're out there. Would any of y'all play a full size version of this video game? Lady non-gamers: would you be curious? And dudes: is it just me that sometimes plays Vice City and wishes he could be a hooker instead of Ray Liotta? [Via Destructoid]  Posted Nov 27 2007, 09:56 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: video games, phones, teenage wasteland

• Dear Nintendo Wii: Happy Birthday, You Old Homewrecker You!

  Monday was the Nintendo Wii's first birthday! What did you get yours? We know what Go Nintendo reader "Tony" gave his Wii: a massive guilt trip for ruining his marriage. Seems that "Tony" got back from Iraq to find something he wasn't expecting on his Wii's Mii Channel (a.k.a., the place where your personalized Wii characters live), something that confirmed rumors he'd been hearing about his wife and an unnamed sports figure. It’s a guy strikingly similar to PBA Bowler *name deleted*. To be sure of this, I went into the Wil Message Board and click on the Calendar option. Through this menu I was able to identify the many nights my wife’s Mii and this ‘other’ Mii Character played Wii Bowling. It became clearly obvious that she couldn’t explain her way out of this. Here's the best part about all this: somewhere out there, there's a pro bowler who's getting into girls pants with his video game skills. What, polos and the promise of remarkable finger strength weren't cutting it? [Via GamePro and Gizmodo] Posted Nov 21 2007, 09:15 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: video games, Wii, infidelity, bowling, nintendo, Nintendo Wii, extra-marital affair, cheaters, iraq war

• Video of the Day: "Cho Aniki"

  OK, even if this weren't part of a video game that "centers on the Holy Protein, a deity-like glob of what may be semen," it would still be one of the greatest things we've ever seen. But that's exactly what it is, meaning that not only have we had both our J-Punk and Tom of Finland quotas met for the day, but we will clearly also be checking our Nintendo Wii's the minute we get home tonight to see if, in fact, a version of this otherwise-Japan only game is available on the Virtual Console. [Via GameBrink.com] Posted Nov 12 2007, 02:00 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: video of the day, video games, tom of finland