Poll finds people more offended by sex than violence in games

A new poll conducted at whattheyplay.com (a site oriented towards educating parents about videogame content) shows that people are more offended by sex than violence in games. Keep in mind that this is a thoroughly unscientific study of a very skewed portion of the population (read: parents who care what their kids are playing), but the results are still surprising. According to the poll, the most offensive thing in a videogame is a depiction of a man and a woman having sex (37%) followed by two men kissing (27%), then a graphically severed human head (26%), and lastly, multiple use of the F-word (10%).
Capcom polls gamers for Bionic Commando Rearmed price
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Capcom has put up a poll Tuesday (February 19, 2008) on their official North American Bionic Commando site that anyone faintly interested in downloading Bionic Commando Rearmed, the souped-up remake of the classic NES title headed for the XBox 360, Playstation3 and PC, should probably vote in: whether to price the game at $10 or $15.
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