Links in May 2012

Dumb, sadly, does not cover it (ign.com)

Rock Paper Shotgun gives the brief version:

… there we go – the sexual fantasy of chaste women revealing their sexuality, immediately before being murdered, is there for us all to enjoy.

Keza MacDonald writing for IGN expands upon this:

The latest Hitman Absolution trailer, though, pairs gratuitous violence with sexualised imagery to create the most troubling piece of marketing material I think I’ve ever seen. It’s obviously designed to shock, but the effect isn’t thought-provoking or emotional – it leaves you feeling uncomfortable, mildly disgusted, and wondering what kind of warped conception Hitman’s marketing team has of what gamers want to see.

Noted intellectual skatrivesis weighs in in the IGN comments:

Go back and play the other hit man games… They have strippers and “ladies and playboy models! Plus sex sells doesn’t it?