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Sex in games has become quite a hot topic of late, with titles likeDragon Age: Origins, Mass EffectandAlpha Protocolinjecting a little sordid filth to keep things spicy. While some rail against the inclusion of such titillating chicanery, there is an organization thathas demandedevenmoreflesh on display. That organization isGoTopless(link is NSFW), a group dedicated to eliminating double standards when it comes to women being allowed to go topless in public. A noble cause indeed, I think you’d agree....

You hear people saying that the Wii is at its best as a social console; the success and popularity ofWii Sportsspeaks volumes to support this. So while the Wii console itself only ships with a single Wii Remote, many games support up to four. Nintendo offers its own first-party options, selling the Wii Remote as a stand-alone peripheral or bundled withWii Play. Now Nyko is making your decision a bit more difficult with its third-party Wii Remote, which they’re calling the “Wand....

In last week’sPlants Vs Zombiescontest, I asked readers to take a picture of themselves doing something horrible to a plant to win one of five swag packs including copies of the game and other goodies. Much to my delight, we had some hilarious entries to choose from when we judged the contest today. Some of you really hate plants! We finally narrowed it down to Suffocat, Paroxysm, Super Drybones, ToxinBlackheart and gozombiesgo as our winners....

[Editor’s note: Zulu ends this month’sMonthly Musingtopic withPersona 3. — CTZ] Well Hell, I guess motivation has hit me at quite an awkward time. There’s only one day left for this musing. Despite it, I think I’ll be able to write something out. So yes, “Playing With Yourself”, quite an easy phrase to poke fun at as an innuendo. We all know that it’s quite funny, but I’ll try my best to restrain from taking the low road....

If you didn’t get into theMAGbeta and are quite bitter about it, never fear. Those lucky (clearly evil) people who have the beta won’t be able to play it for a bit, with Sony confirming that the PSN is going down later this morning. That’s what you get for being able to playMAGwhile I can’t, youutter arseholes! Okay, so the damage actually isn’tthatbad. The PSN will be down from 9am to 11am PST....

It’s Thursday, and you know what that means — it’s “Mini Meat Loaf Day” at Albert R. Lyman Middle School in San Juan County, Utah! Oh, and Sony has also updated both the PlayStation Store on PlayStation 3 and PC. On the console front, there’s nottoomuch going on — no full games, no game demos. But nine songs have been added to the Rock Band Music Store, one of which — “Hysteria” — is the most awesomely fun song to play inRock Band, ever....

Podtoid now records on Mondays because ofLOST. Don’t ask. Anyway, I know we’ll be talking about the death ofCursed Mountain‘s developerand how that ties into the place (or lack of one) of mature fare on the Wii, but beyond that it’s more of the January news slump. Samit will probably try to help out with a few topics but, if things go as they did last week, we may just discuss last week’s large releases and rely on some listener questions....

Axe Cop. Read it. Another Podtoid records tonight, and we’re as desperate for conversation fodder as ever. Since we can’t talk about Axe Cop, that effectively halves my planned discussion contribution this week.

This is not something I expected to see today. A name I’ve not heard in years,Gungrave, has apparently been licensed to Convergence Entertainment in order to make alive action movie. Originally a PS2 game released in 2002,Gungravetook the form of a third-person shooter from the chaps at Sega. Gungraveexisted as an anime series as well, running from 2002 to 2004. Things have been quiet inGungravecountry for the past five years, however, making for quite an odd bit of news indeed....

Big thanks to Cheapy D fromCheapAssGamerfor this vid! So, this is the PS3’s Online Network’s Terms of Service screen, and it takes THIRTEEN seconds to scroll through the damned thing. Sony, level with me … who the hell do you think is going to take the time out to read all that?

You know all of thatcrazy sh*t we showed you that you can do inJust Cause 2? Well, if you’re playing the game on the PlayStation 3, you’ll be able to record your exploits and share them with your friends. Square Enix London Studios has announced that the PS3 version will ship with a built-in video capture feature, which will allow you to upload the action to YouTube. By activating the capture feature, you’ll be able to auto-record the last 30 seconds of gameplay right to your PS3 hard drive, and then upload it to YouTube....

In a press released that shuffled its way towards us this morning, Sega has announced that the upcoming Wii sequel,NiGHTS: Journey of Dreamswill feature a two-player mode and network support. While we already know about one of the game’s duel modes, the release is devoid of any further information that we might need to know. Things like what two-player modes will be included, or how many Friend Codes we’ll need to simply access the multiplayer menu, for instance....

In a recent interview with bit-tech.net, Rebellion’s Head of Art and Design Tim Jones hinted strongly at the possibility of a newJudd Dreddvideogame. “Well, there is the announcement that went out recently about a newJudge Dreddflim in the works,” he said, referring to what’s said to be a remake of the 1995 Sylvester Stallone picture, when questioned about a new game. Jones then does his best to not give anything away, but can’t really seem to help himself....