The gap between “gaming magazine” and “porn” is getting slimmer by the issue. Here’s a page I scanned from the most recent issue of one of the books my brother subscribes to:
But hasn’t spandex been “out” since Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin? <strike> Implied sexual attractiveness is usually overdriven by the fact that you’ll probably have a 1st person view mode on all the time, giving you no real view of her pixely arse for the whole part where you actually commandeer her. Besides, I like breasts more than bums.</strike>
UH-uh uh, Spazzy. Parents wouldn’t buy their darling little kids games that would rot their brain, now would they? No, they’ll get it and then blame the game companies about how Little Billy has been the main cause to the massive Kleenex storages in their household…
I don’t think hentai will move too far into gaming. Even if it’s not as serious in Japan (which I have no idea if it is or not), companies are surely aware of the huge market they’d be screwing themselves out of by making too many ‘M’ rated games.
Then again, most parents in the US don’t really care what their teens are playing, since they’re the ones who buy the games for them. They only magically care when something bad happens, like the Columbine incident. Then it’s an anti-gaming bandwagon (It’s not my fault that my kid stole my un-locked, unhidden firearms; it’s because he played Doom and Unreal Tournament! Pointing a mouse is just the same as shooting a real gun! Ev0l!).