With the success of one of the season's gift sensations,
some video game developers couldn't wait to turn MicrosoftKinect Xbox into
"Sexbox."
Thrixxx, a video game manufacturer that produces 3D adult
videogames, created a virtual sex game for Microsoft's Kinect (the first
controller-free mechanism for the videogame console Xbox 360). The new game allows
gamers eighteen and older to experience virtual fondling with various female
avatars.
On screen, one will see a disembodied hand that appears to be floating in mid-air. The ghostly hand is then used to navigate how the user gropes any part of the virtual female.
"It looks like Thing from the Addams Family is partaking in some non-family oriented entertainment," states Darren Quick, a writer from Gizmag.
Ironically, the Kinect is marketed as the rival to the Nintendo Wii system and is supposedly completely for the purposed of family-oriented entertainment.
Microsoft's spokesman David Dennis said Microsoft is taking
a stand against this new game.
"This isn't the first example of a technology being used in
ways not intended by its manufacturer, and it won't be the last. Microsoft did
not authorize or license its technology for this use and will take appropriate
action against violations of its intellectual property," said Dennis in a
public statement. "Xbox is a family-friendly games and entertainment console
and does not allow Adults Only (AO) content to be certified for use on its
platform, and would not condone this type of game for Kinect."
While they have not received permission yet, Thrixx's demos should be completed this year with every intention of making all their games adjustable to the Kinect. They are just waiting on Microsoft's green light.
Since most users of the console are young teenagers, Microsoft intends to take legal action against it.