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Sexing it app: The erotic video games that explore sexuality

New Scientist

Just the idea of touching a sexual organ was a problem." Jarnfelt and Hasselager are at the centre of a growing community of developers who are making games that explore issues around sex and sexuality. They help run the annual Lyst conference, where developers meet to discuss and show off games such as Breakup โ€“ a VR experience in which you endlessly repeat the last few moments of a relationship โ€“ and Pocket Jockey โ€“ in which players make other players' phones vibrate. The third Lyst event took place in Hamar, Norway, last weekend. "The community is growing, we're getting more and more participants," says Hasselager. "Love, romance and sex are some of the most natural human emotions but they are portrayed so badly in games," she says.


Electronic duo AlunaGeorge will headline the first concert inside 'Minecraft'

Mashable

AlunaGeorge are set to perform where no artist has ever performed: Inside the world of the revolutionary sandbox game Minecraft. When the London electronic duo -- along with Norwegian duos Lemaitre and Broiler -- open tech festival The Gathering Wednesday in Hamar, Norway, the performance will be re-created for Minecraft players, according to Norway's The Local. According to the site, each artist has been given an avatar and a team of gamers will re-create their movements onstage within the game. SEE ALSO: 'Minecraft' in VR is exactly what you'd hope it would be Heisholt told The Local that, just like in the real world, the concert will be promoted within the game in Minecraft, too, with posters and billboards, and that it will accommodate "around 2,000 to 3,000 people." "There have been plenty of other music experiences in the Minecraft universe, but not like this," Gathering organizer Erik Heisholt said.