Hellgate: London Character to be Nude in Playboy

[Sol Invictus]

CNN Money reveals that a Hellgate: London character is going to be featured in Playboy's nude pictorial. Here's the snippet you want to read:

Carla's...a character in Atari's upcoming action/adventure game "Indigo Prophecy." And she's hardly alone. Seven other video game femmes fatale, heroines and bit characters have once again shimmied out of their clothes for a digital pictorial in the men's magazine.

Joining Carla are a cheerleader from Midway's upcoming "Blitz: The League," Sony's megahit "God of War," Vivendi's "50 Cent: Bulletproof," "Playboy: The Mansion – Private Party," "Darkwatch," and "Hellgate: London."

It must be noted that every other character has been revealed in the article, aside from Hellgate: London. With any luck, it'll be a new class character or an in-game NPC instead of the Templar female that we've already seen.

[Citizen]

Thats hilarious!

[Sol Invictus]

I guess Playboy's trying to appeal to the geek factor. Geeks with hardons, now that's new!

[Jugalator]

Haha...

Hmm, I wonder if this is signs of more to come. Not specifically for HG:L, but for games in general, as graphics improve. This reminds me of the Final Fantasy virtual character Aki Ross. (search e.g. Google Images for Aki Ross to see what I mean) Here's the clothed version and face detail.

[Dac the Hork]

That is completely stupid, unless it is a female dressed in the costume, which while still bad, is not nearly to the levels of polygon porn in playboy :\ (im flaming playboy for this terrible idea lol) Flagship is smart to accept any $$$ it could bring in (publicity too).

anyway enjoy the money you get FSS :P (Heck yeah :P)

[DonD]

The pictures won't show up here because of copyright and nudity reasons, right?

[Scapes]

They will once the issue is available.

Minor censorship will cover the nudity and there is no copyright problem.
-- Scaper-X

[DonD]

No copyright problem with PLAYBOY?
You are kidding, right?

[LizardWhoSkiis]

It's not really suprising, nor is it anything all that new. They ran something similar a while back involving a couple other games such as Bloodrayne, I think DoA, and a few others. Hell, they even ran a hottest TechTV hostess contest back in the day when there was a TechTV.

Interesting though that Flagship was approached on this as it's still so early in development and the templar is really the only female model we seen, whereas the others have a desgnated game hottie to be used. Guess we'll just have to see what comes up.

[Scapes]

Originally Posted by DonD

No copyright problem with PLAYBOY?

That's correct. This is a fansite. There is no personal gain being made off of the images. If I purchase the magazine, I am entitled to "archive" the images in a manner of my choosing. That happens to be digital archiving kindly offered by Sol.

Besides, I somehow think they expect to see their gaming images scanned in such a way. It may not be entirely legit but I certainly doubt that Sol will be getting Hugh Hefner's personal legal team knocking down his door.
-- Scaper-X