It's a slippery slope, I tells ya. Soon we'll have video game characters marrying dogs, and hamburgers eating people.

That'd be awesome. I always wanted to have the dog as a romanceable option in Dragon Age: Origins.

Yeah, people need to know that transgenders, gays, etc are nothing bad, but just part of (modern) life. Even if it's just for publicity, like you said, I'm good with it.

I didn't know anyone in Mortal Kombat had a sexuality lol

I think it's been done really nicely. Not having him be solely "the gay character" but just being a part of his backstory.

When you think about it, it was the next logical step after "Babalities" and "Animalities". I can see it now, "Finish him!" you input a series of buttons and your character says "I like to sleep with girls/guys" then the announcer says "Sexuality".

well , it will improve the gameplay .......... oh wait

Oh lord, think of the children! :(

Putting them in a game just for the sake of doing so, or because it's a certain year is ridiculous. I'm all for artists making what they want and if having gay people in games is what a designer wants, I'm fine with it. But to put them in JUST to be "hip" or "socially modern" is complete BS. At that point, they're just a sell out imo.

That's pretty subtle. Come to think of it, many old and new games only address a character's sexuality through subtle hints, but it still remains ambiguous and interpretive overall for the player to decide. Games were always more progressive than movies in that regard imo.