VG Vixens Return To Playboy

Chris Morris talks virtual nudity in his latest Game Over column, as videogame characters return to the pages of Playboy magazine. From the article: "[Game characters to be featured in the magazine hail from] Midway's upcoming 'Blitz: The League', Sony's megahit 'God of War,' Vivendi's '50 Cent: Bulletproof,' 'Playboy: The Mansion - Private Party,' 'Darkwatch,' and 'Hellgate: London'. While nude video game characters are nothing new for Playboy, the October issue hits stands just as the storm surrounding an unlockable sex scene in 'Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas' begins to pass. The magazine said it never considered delaying the layout."

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sex disparity

[uberjoe]

So when do we get to see the DooM guy, Duke Nukem and Gordan Freeman is Playgirl? My what a big crowbar you have.

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[TripMaster Monkey]

The Joke Murderer strikes again.

Re:sex disparity

[uberjoe]

Perhaps it's because both the porn industry and the video game industry are dominated, and run mostly by males?

And you think some of those males aren't gay and have a thing for tough ruggedly individualistic digital types who kill monsters, but have a tender side they would only show with the right person? Ahhhh only in my dreams.

Now to post this anonymously. . .wait! D'oh!

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[jessecurry]

I don't think that the male bits render as nicely. To make a good female form you want everything tight and smooth, but a male form would need some pretty serious physics to get everything draping correctly.

Plus, who really wants to see a bunch of dudes? :p

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[uberjoe]

but a male form would need some pretty serious physics to get everything draping correctly

I think source could do fine.

Plus, who really wants to see a bunch of dudes?

Ummm chicks? And gay guys.

Argh

[timmahtron]

I'm sure that 50 Cent game is going to be a masterpiece. Press Y to sell out.

Playboy prints a magazine now?

[generic-man]

I get my Perl modules from them too. They're amazingly geek-friendly lately. :)

Re:Playboy prints a magazine now?

[Explodicle]

The gentlemen's entertainment industry has always been very geek-friendly. How do you think streaming video took off?

Re:Playboy prints a magazine now?

[Longstaff]

You can get more than Perl mods: http://mirrors.playboy.com/

From their site:

Playboy's resident tech nerds would like to thank the authors, contributors, bug testers, and everyone else involved in the Open Source software we use on a daily basis. THANK YOU!

I've worked with the tech guys at playboy.com almost daily for about 3 years now. They are some of the brightest, hardest-working and funniest guys I've had the pleasure to deal with.

Who?

[Gogo0]

Who are the "ladies" that theyll be showing?

Random cheerleader from football game
Random girl that was already topless in God of War
Random gang-banger chick from 50 Cent
Random porn star from the Playboy game no one played
Non-main character female from Darkwatch
Ive never even heard of Hellgate: London, maybe it has a female main character that few people have heard of

Re:Who?

[KDR_11k]

Ive never even heard of Hellgate: London, maybe it has a female main character that few people have heard of

It's a first person shooter dungeon crawl. The last article I read about it sounded like a fun game but didn't mention any characters at all. Perhaps it'll be naked mindflayers or something.

I hope it's....

[CorradoLite]

...better than the first time they did this. Man, at only 3 pictures it was quite a disappointment. At least they will have more "models" (pun intended) this time.

Later...
    Richard

Wait, so...

[rohlfinator]

They're stressing the fact that they don't want to be associated with the "Pokemon generation". So they release collectible trading cards with video game characters that you need to collect by buying two different products.

Gotta catch 'em all!

target audience

[Red Flayer]

Print porn has been going down the tubes over the past decade as your average younger pornhound has easy access to free stills and video on the internet.

Laptops and handhelds (computers, not models or anything else!) are taking away one of the great advantages of print porn -- transportability.

Hef's company knows it needs to get some of the younger generations (i.e., 18-40) back into the (center)fold.

Playboy and Penthouse have always tried to get famous, beautiful, female personalities for their pictorials, from models to actresses to musicians to athletes to Miss America. Why shouldn't they have pictorials featuring modern famous, beautiful, female personalities, even if they are from video games?

Maybe Playboy can get some new people to appreciate all that print porn has to offer.

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[Skagit]

Even though massive amounts of filth to meet any perversion are available free on the internet, I still get a hardcopy subscription to Playboy for three reasons. I think enough people have similar reasoning and will continue to appreciate the glossy pages.

The first is that I really don't want a laptop while I'm sitting on the throne. I don't want an accident to happen to my laptop. Also, I don't want to use a laptop while it is actually on my lap too difficult to get comfortable. While PDA's and laptops are getting more and more portable, they'll never be quite right for the bathroom or the hammock in the yard.

The second is the articles, especially the fiction. I don't like reading for fun on a monitor. As the parent poster pointed out, the print edition also has special women, not available on the electronic version of the magazine.

The final reason is the collection. Can a teenage boy really browse your porn archive CD's in the basement? No. The wonderful stacks of Playboy with their (exactly) three pictorials are a treasure trove for a young man. I won't deny that to my son(s) when the time comes.

As an aside, what's with all the colons in game titles these days? GTA:SA, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, Hellgate: London, Rome: Total War, Call of Duty: United Offensive, ad nauseam. At least it is Half-life 2, not Half-life: Gordon remains mute.

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[Joe Random]

As an aside, what's with all the colons in game titles these days? GTA:SA, 50 Cent: Bulletproof, Hellgate: London, Rome: Total War, Call of Duty: United Offensive, ad nauseam. At least it is Half-life 2, not Half-life: Gordon remains mute.

I would guess that the use of colons is to avoid having to add a numeral to the end of the game. Let's face it, if they had called "GTA: San Andreas" "GTA 5" (or whatever number we're up to) instead, how many people would avoid buying "GTA 4" because they think that a lower number must mean an inferior game? So, from a marketing standpoint, using colons makes perfect sense.

Could be worse...

[rsilvergun]

Random overweight fan from football game
Random harpy from God of War
Random crack-ho from 50 Cent
Random US Senator from the Playboy game no one played
Main character from Darkwatch
The entire monster cast of Hellgate: London in a nude free-for-all.

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No difference...

[Reignking]

Eh, all of the pictures are digitally enhanced, anyway...