The Japanese have always had different standards when it comes to nudity and sexuality in their interactive media, as exemplified by the recent announcement of Love Death 4, a game in which “that certain part of the male body” plays a starring role by way of a USB camera.

In the U.S., video game nudity (especially full frontal) is, to put it lightly, discouraged.  The ESRB’s double standard of “violence is OK, but sex is a no-no” has been a cornerstone of the ratings system since its conception.

Recently, however, the nation’s media has become more violent, more vulgar, and more sexually explicit.  This shift to a moral-less society did not happen overnight.  It all started with a little system called the Atari 2600…

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You might not have ever heard of the developer Crowd Control Productions, typically referred to as CCP, but I’m pretty sure you’ve heard of their cult hit Eve Online.  The company started out small in 1997, as the brain child of three men from Iceland, and has since grown to include offices in the UK, US, and China.

Apparently those crazy guys from CCP don’t have enough work on their hands trying to keep the citizens of EVE Online happy, so they decided to create a rap video for the game’s community.  Create by and starring most of the people from the company, this is easily one of the most incredible developer videos ever created.

Because the video includes swearing I’m including it after the jump, but whether you are a fan of the game or not, you need to check this out. Read more… »

The head honcho at Gearbox, Randy Pitchford, made a statement in the latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine, claiming that easy achievements equates to more sales. I am sure many of you, alongside me, have purchased a game at least once on the grounds of some easy achievement points.

“The Achievement hunter, who’s going to make purchase decisions around the Achievements per minute to ratio – he’s probably buying ten to twenty titles a year, or at least playing that many. He’s playing a lot. So he’s a very frequent customer, and you want to be in that pile. That’s just business.” – Randy Pitchford

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Ever order a used game off of GameStop.com and had nothing sent to you but the game disc in a cheap paper sleeve?  Those days are no more.

GameStop’s new policy is to include both cover art AND instruction manuals with every used game they sell online.  Well, every used game on the newest generation of systems: PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, and PSP.  PS2/Gamecube/Xbox-only owners are out of luck.

Are there catches?  Probably.

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A trademark filing has recently been spotted for a game called Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands. As the last Prince of Persia was released in 2008 by Ubisoft, it makes sense for a new PoP to be on the way.

As with all other series, it’ll most likely end up on all consoles as well.

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Last week, a blog post on Capcom Unity accidentally revealed a list of five Capcom games headed to the PSN as well as their release dates.

Previously available only on UMD, the recent launch of the PSP-Go is likely the cause for these games being converted into the digital format.

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Ever since its inception back in 2002, Kingdom Hearts has been a staple of the action-RPG genre, combining the intense and fluid combat of an action game and the customization and narrative of an RPG to create one glorious, genre-defining IP. Many have become engrossed with KH’s overarching story as they’ve been counting down the years, months, and days for an epic continuation; and to you I say, that day is finally at hand.

Grab your keyblade, slug that potion down, and come join me down the dual screened rabbit hole in the wold of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Read more… »

3000 posts in under a year? Yep! A very big ‘thank you’ to all the following people for helping us achieve the latest +1000 post milestone.

As a side note… apologies in advance for everyone I found photos of!

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It’s been a messy saga over the last few weeks for Valve. Their highly anticipated sequel Left 4 Dead 2 was banned in Australia thanks to a truly antiquated rating system, while the South Australian Attorney-general jumped on the Valve-hating bandwagon.

Well, now it seems that L4D2 has indeed received an Australian rating. Read on to find out what it is.

[Update]: With all of the rumours swirling around the blogosphere, Gamer Limit contacted Valve Software directly regarding the submitted version and recieved a reply from Valve’s Doug Lombardi.

Edited. Waiting for word on the appeal of the standard version. So, the game will ship in Austalia the question now is which version.

Stay tuned.

That we will Doug. More when we have it.

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[Every Wednesday Gamer Limit scours the underbelly of the internet to bring you the finest releases from the indie scene, check back each week to see what we recommend. Feel free to check out our full schedule right here!]

Stepping out from the indie realms of Xbox Live and the iPhone, we instead take a trip onto the PC today with Big Fish Games’ artistic title Drawn: The Painted Tower. I will admit, I was smitten with this game after seeing the trailer. I genuinely had no idea what the game was about and how it’s played. I couldn’t have even told you what genre the game fit into, but I knew I wanted to play it because it was so darn pretty. I mean, seriously pretty. I’m talking Hayley Williams pretty right now.

Does The Painted Tower offer more than just a casual romp through some nice drawings?

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When FIFA International Soccer was released in 1993, who would have believed that the football market would have exploded into the massive scene that it is today. In constant rivalry with Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer series, FIFA has had to improve each and every facet of its gameplay in order to gain a foothold on such a tightly contested sub-genre.

After FIFA 09 indisputably took the mantel as best football game last year, does FIFA 10 live up to all its expectations? Have the developers truly listened to the fans as they claimed they would? And have we witnessed the greatest football title of our time?

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Today Runic Games released a new developer diary for its upcoming action RPG Torchlight.

For those of you who don’t know, Torchlight is a game much in the vein of Diablo. In fact, the game is being developed by Blizzard North co-founders Max and Eric Schaefer and the music is being handled by Diablo composer Matt Uelmen.

To check out the developer diary hit the jump.

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