Lara Croft "Nipplegate", Eidos Cover-up

This week's release of the new Tomb Raider: Legend couldn't have passed without incidents; and it didn't. An overzealous (or simply horny) guy managed to extract some intriguing textures from the game's code, depicting a barenaked nipple - which, even though was not being shown in the actual game, it surely had the potential of starting an all-out virtual "Nipplegate" (if we're to remember the hysteria caused by the GTA: San Andreas "Hot Coffee" MOD among puritan yankees). The giddy discovery was also exposed by Xboxic, who later on warned that the v1.1 patch was removing this likely problem from the European version of Tomb Raider: Legend on the PC. And just in case you can't imagine how on earth a nippleless bust might look like, Xboxic also has some comparative pictures before / after Eidos' plastic surgery. But I'm warning you, it's not a pretty sight (anymore).

In the meantime, the game's American release is still a few days away, since you can't fool around with nipples around there! Socio-political-hypocritically speaking.

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