So what? So help me, but that was my reaction when I heard about the Hot Coffee scandal.
Hot Coffee is the name of a steamy 'mod': code that modifies a game - in this case Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The industry usually encourages mods because, through embroidering plotlines, the perpetrators, known as 'modders', boost their babies' popularity and lifespan.
Apparently motivated by mischief and a desire to sharpen their programming skills, modders have been around at least since the original version of the gothic shoot-'em-up Doom, which encouraged the practice. Modders still tinker with Doom, adding flamethrowers, third-person adjustable camera angles, new textures and all kinds of flourishes.
But they do not add naked ogres or bonking humans - Doom is all about being knee-deep in the dead. Society apparently finds this fairly acceptable - the game is rated M (Mature), which means you must be 17 to play. The same applies to GTA but it may wind up with taboo AO (Adults Only) status because Hot Coffee enables the hero to engage in a sexual act before your eyes. Pure voyeurism.
Thank 36-year-old Dutchman Patrick Wildenborg - a name neatly reminiscent of Jocelyne Wildenstein, the plastic surgery diva and a certain sci-fi giant. Mr Wildenborg seems to have created a monster but insists that his mod merely accesses material already included in GTA.
The publisher Rockstar Games apparently built the hanky panky into the game, but decided to disable it in the final release. Maybe Rockstar simply wanted to inject some intrigue that would whet the appetite of wayward code-crunchers. Or maybe the firm planned openly to feature sex but got cold feet.