XBLA: Porn Comes To XNA Community Games
[Update: And It's been taken down from the store. Swift moving Microsoft]
It was bound to happen.
One of the most recent additions to the XNA Community Games library is a game called Break One Out. Going by the name alone you'd expect it to be nothing more than another Breakout or Arkanoid clone. It certainly is, and a bad one at that, but Break One Out has a catch - you break blocks to reveal nude images.
The creator "Kaos nyrb", or Kitty as she so claims, has added "A wide range of over 30 unique levels each including an unlockable pictures of me". The screenshot attached, even without the censor, doesn't even begin to tell you how close the game gets to full blown nudity - playing the free trial reveals an image of Kitty with nothing but tiny black bars holding back her modesty.
Unlike Xbox Live Arcade titles, which uphold the ESRB rating system, XNA Community Games have their own rating system which give players an idea from 1 to 3 on how much Violence, Sex and Mature Content can be found in the game. Clearly the second one is quite high in this game.
It's all within the rules of the XNACG of course. Heck, a game like the upcoming Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Smash will fetaure similar imagry, but with cartoon characters. Will this game begin an outcry of the XNA Community Games lack of moderation by Microsoft? It certainly could, and if we end up seeing this game on Major Nelson's Top 10 lists we could easily see a barrage of copy cats.
Let's hope we don't.
