Retro

Game Box Nipples And Gunsmoke Moustaches

This is Game Over, a title for the Spectrum, first released in 1987. A game released amidst controversy. See, while later editions of the game would feature slightly edited variations of the box art, the original featured one of video gaming’s first wardrobe malfunctions.


April 24, 2012
In Real Life

Using Strap-On Joysticks To Fight With Fake Penises

That’s not a crass headline. It is quite literal. There’s an indie game (not a video game, a literal game) in development called Swordfight. It asks players to buy old joysticks, strap them to their crotch using a harness and, well, sword fight.


April 18, 2012
In Real Life

Cliff Bleszinski And The Comic That’s Influencing Epic’s Next Big Game

Cliff Bleszinski didn’t grow up reading comic books. He was all about video games and movies as a kid. But that all changed when he started reading Preacher, the blasphemously brilliant series written by Garth Ennis, and drawn by Steve Dillon. The series published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint opened Bleszinski up a whole new storytelling medium and he’s been a regular reader ever since. I talked with Epic Games’ Design Director last week about his favourite writers, superhero sex and why he loves dogs more than cats.


March 28, 2012
Mobile

Saudi Arabia Bans Shoe-Shopping Game For Sounding Too Sexy

Shoe Wars is a simple little iPhone jumper about a woman looking for shoes, an activity many would consider a blissful experience. A little too blissful if you ask Saudi Arabia.


January 4, 2012
PC

It’s Not Star Wars Without Slavery, Torture, And Forced Voyeurism?

Meet Vette. She’s the loyal Twi’lek companion character to my Star Wars: The Old Republic Sith Warrior. Or at least she’d better be, if she knows what’s good for her. Beware, spoilers ahead.


November 21, 2011
In Real Life

Female Gamers Have More Sex, According To Survey

Kotaku AU

We have no real insight into the scientific validity of this survey, but I’m going to go ahead and believe it anyway — Harris Interactive has just released a survey revealing that girls who game have more sex than those who don’t. Hubba hubba, etc.


November 2, 2011
In Real Life

Activision Uninvites Celebrity From Modern Warfare 3 Party After Learning She’s A Porn Star

Dutch porn star Kim Holland was invited and then quickly uninvited from a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 VIP party in Amsterdam later this month after the game’s publisher discovered what she did for a living, Eigenwereld reports.


October 13, 2011
In Real Life

The Only Way To Get A Male Gamer To Do The Housework…

ElMangosto’s special lady certainly knows the way to get him to pull his weight around the house: Dead Island and boobs.


October 3, 2011
News

Peripheral Designed With Junks In Mind Coming Next Month

Japan’s Tech Arts 3D doesn’t just make video games. It also makes things to put on your junk. Some might call this unnecessary or disgusting, I’ll call it multitasking.


July 21, 2011
In Real Life

And Then Luigi Went On Mr Toad’s Wild Ride

Photographer Jeff Junio gets up-close and personal with Nintendo characters in his Super Macro Bros set, crafting this image of Toad and Luigi that’s either delightful or very sinister, I can’t tell. See more at the 8-Bit Cubist.