Mass Effect 3 became the game in the sci-fi series where BioWare finally opened up the relationship possibilities for players wanting to romance a character of the same gender, with characters Esteban Cortez and Samantha Traynor only available for wooing if you played as a male or female Commander Shepard.
A change to the Xbox Live code of conduct this morning now allows gamers to express their sexual orientation in Xbox Live profiles or Gamertags.
“Valet Hustle,” a game currently available for iPhone and iPod Touch, is novel in that its playable characters have a gay-positive backstory that is completely independent of the gameplay’s purpose. In other words, it’s about gay people doing ordinary things.
Our own Luke Plunkett recently pointed out that the word “lesbo” is in the list of Scrabble DS suggested words, and elaborated that if he’d known that the Scrabble dictionary were so naughty, he’d have “played a lot more Scrabble”.
Well suffice it to say, I intend on playing a bit more Scrabble, too, based upon this update from a reader: Hey, my wife was playing ds scrabble and it suggested the word CUNT…Just thought it was way funnier than Lesbo
Cunt is funnier than lesbo. It really, truly is.
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