Sex, Secret Codes and Videogames - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com
Sex, Secret Codes and Videogames - Newsweek Technology - MSNBC.com
GTA: SA is still buzzing and pundits express that we don’t know where video games sit in our ‘cultural pantheon.’ Levy’s right in saying that a kid clever enough to find the hack, install it, and access the hidden treasure in GTA: SA is going to be able to apply that to finding porn. Indeed, the kid who installs the hack has gone one step beyond googling to ogle and joined the ranks of the wizardry nerd class. Paid his subversive configuration dues and for it gets rewarded in cartoonish sex acts.
GTA:SA wouldn’t have entered my household, and this Pandora’s box has nothing to do with it. The entire theme of cop-killing and criminal activity wouldn’t have made it in the door - and it didn’t take a Adults Only rating to get there. Nope, I would have weeded this one out at the ‘morally reprehensible’ rating.
