Mass Effect hit mainstream headlines when clueless US news anchors found out it contained saucy fumbles under the covers. BioWare's latest RPG, Dragon Age, gets jiggy with it at some point too. But BioWare says it's simply to reflect real human relationships in a "sophisticated mature experience".
When asked if games need to contain scenes of this nature, BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk told us: "I don't think they need to have them, I think that in certain types of games it makes sense to have them.