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[Hank Chinaski]

video game chicks are fun but its not sexy. I mean everyone agrees on that, except apparently Hugh Hefner's feeble brain. Maybe at 80 the eyes are going to the point there's no difference between cartoon and photo. On the other hand, I would never have beaten SS in GTA at Sophmore year's Spring Games if he hadn't slowed down to cruise some of the hookers, and was driving "one-handed" for awhile, so maybe it appeals to some.

Playboy's Newest Pinup: Video Game Characters
Wednesday, September 08, 2004

LOS ANGELES — Playboy is taking a chance on silicon instead of silicone.

The October issue of the men's magazine features several video game characters posing in the nude -- images created by the game companies through detailed computer illustration.

"Hopefully the purists won't get too bent out of shape. This is just the next version of the pinup," said Playboy senior editor Scott Alexander, who developed the project.

The computerized models are part of the magazine's video game preview, titled "Gaming Grows Up." (search) The five-page section starts with a topless image of the half-vampire, half-human title character from "BloodRayne," (search) a leather-clad woman who fights with three-foot blades attached to her arms.

The next image is a full-frontal, two-page foldout of a character named Luba Licious from the upcoming mature-rated comedy game "Leisure Suit Larry," which is about a shrimpy guy who travels a college campus courting impossibly buxom coeds.

The images even feature the signature Playboy centerfold-style bio. "We treated these women just like they are celebrities," Alexander said. "We treated them real, as if they had turn-ons and turn-offs."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,131684,00.html


The half-human, half-vampire character "BloodRayne" in Playboy