Over at the Gamers Association one finds a really interesting article about the question why “Gaming Is Not Ready For Sex” and it does not focus (as usual) on the acceptance of violence in games in contrast to the nonacceptance of sexual contents but of the struggling to create truly great narratives which are a key factor to pull it off.

Some of the key sentences:

“…the very structure of games make it very difficult to create a satisfying story.”
“Gaming is focused on the gameplay experience while film is focused on the narrative.”
“Sex is a very difficult subject to approach in media. Even in film, it takes great skill to pull off a sex scene that isn’t just gratuitous body shots.”

Some examples of games are given that are “trying new and inventive ways to further connect players with their characters as well as trying new story-telling techniques”. Another example for such games is the quite new singleplayer sex game XStoryPlayer with its one-of-a-kind game concept where the story is in the spotlight combined with artificial intelligence.

The author concludes with “gaming has to grow up first for the sex to become a very interactive and personal experience”.

Well, that’s true for singleplayer sex games where incorporating sex into the story is a very hard challenge to not appear clunky and emotionless. But one is missing any word about multiplayer sex games where the game developer has not to deal with artificial intelligence, story telling and so on, here the sex initiation results from the interactive and personal experience the *real* people have with each other.

It was only a matter of time till the first sex game announcement for the *hyped* virtual reality head set Oculus Rift because of the devices ability to let the wearer have a fully immersive experience of a virtual environment. You no longer play a game by looking at a computer screen you are rather fully inside the game. You see everything from 1st person perspective which means you become the character.

The name of the sex game is Wicked Paradise, to be released in 2014.

Some of the company lines describing what the game is about:

Imagine walking into a bar in Wicked Paradise, noticing a beautiful lady, talking to her, and seducing her.
Imagine playing your cards right and having passionate wild sex with her.
Imagine all this in high quality, immersive virtual reality.

Well, we’ve seen so many new game development announcements in the last years that jumped on a specific hype (e.g. multiplayer sex games) but then mostly all of them failed to deliver. It’s never a good idea to count such games before they are hatched, we hope Wicked Paradise will make it and will monitor its development progress but are a little bit reluctant. There will surely come up more *new* sex games thats developments will be anounced together with the Oculus Rift capabilities.

More chances to really make use of the Oculus Rift device would have sex games that are already released, technically up-to-date, with a large user base and an existing development team, such as 3D SexVilla 2 or 3DXChat, only to name two.

See results of early animation tests of the Oculus Rift sex game Wicked Paradise on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/68550959