Perverts, unite.

I know this one has already been, um, splattered all over the message boards, but I can't resist.

The well-informed folks at Kotaku have posted a very interesting report on a game called Love Death 2, complete with video footage.  Therein, the player shoots reproductive fluid at what appears to be a schoolgirl.  Yes, really.  And believe it or not, that's not even the most disturbing aspect of this mess.

Words fail me, so I'll let the summary on the Kotaku page speak for itself.  Go here to read it and view the very not-safe-for-work video.

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No real changes from last month.

NPD submitted its figures for July, and it makes for an engaging read.  As those with sharp memories might recall, many analysts predicted that the PlayStation 3 price drop/fire sale would result in a sales surge.  The reality is a mixture of good news and bad news.

The good news is that the PS3 dominated the Xbox 360 in Canada.  They placed second and third, respectively, to Nintendo's Wii.

The bad news is that Sony's combination game console and Blu-ray player didn't pull off such a comeback in the United States.  It did, however, outsell the Game Boy Advance by nearly a 2-to-1 ratio.

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My random musings are guaranteed to annoy you slightly less than a Fergie song.

Things are pretty quiet on the gaming front at the moment.  The summer blitz is over, and the big holiday releases are still distant on the horizon.  We had E3, Peter Moore's "megaton" announcement, and a confession from Microsoft that their Xbox 360 is slightly less stable than Mariah Carey.  Most of the current news out there is, quite frankly, filler material, and all the good stuff has been covered by other editors.

Rather than my standard one news item, I'm going to briefly discuss five news items (most of which annoy me in one way or another).  I'll give my opinions, and in the field below, you can tell me how wrong I am, how stupid I must be, et cetera.  Sounds like good, clean fun for the whole family, eh? So without further ado, here are five items that caught my eye, in no particular order:
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News that gamers will be talking about for weeks to come.

The government of the People's "Republic" of China has received some pretty negative press lately.  Not too long ago, they were exporting dog food burdened with a really bad side effect known as "death."  As if that's not bad enough, instances of bribery and corruption have been on the rise in all levels of government.  Toss in the standard stories of human rights violations, add a pinch of the usual saber-rattling over Taiwan, and you're left with one hell of a public relations nightmare.  Can't a totalitarian regime get a break?

Given these political headaches, the world's largest communist state has turned to the one thing guaranteed to raise spirits:  video games.

That's right, kids!  The creators of the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square Massacre have created a PC game called Incorruptible Fighter.  According to the BBC, this game "allows players to get ahead by killing and torturing corrupt officials, while assisting the upstanding ones."  Do your job well and you are rewarded with a virtual Maoist utopia.

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It's that time of the month again.  No, I'm not talking about the time when The Succubus gets moody and whines that I drink too much.  I'm referring to monthly sales figures from The NPD Group.

These reports are always a great source of entertainment.  Sure, they do a good job of keeping all interested parties informed of recent sales trends.  More importantly, however, this data always manages to get the most rabid of fanboys riled up on gaming sites.  Those who own the current top-selling console preen as if they actually helped engineer the fucking thing.  Those who own any other console wildly proclaim that the company responsible for said console is going to go belly-up any day now, its owners are flaming homosexuals, and their console is teh roxors. (more…)