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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

New ways to 'score' in video games

"Amid the thousands of new products at the Electronic Entertainment Expo featuring shooting, racing, punching, slashing and pummeling, a handful of upcoming titles like The Sims 2 and Playboy: The Mansion have focused on 'love' -- or at least the physical act of it -- as the player's main goal," reports AP.

"Brian Bilicki, lead software engineer [on the new Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude], anticipates an uproar. He said it's hypocritical that showing a cartoon woman's breasts is regarded as taboo in an industry that embraces so many grotesquely violent games like Manhunt and Grand Theft Auto III."

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