Hands off those bikinis, Japanese game maker warns hackers.
TOKYO - The Japanese maker of a video game which features cyber babes playing volleyball are seeing red at hackers' attempts to remove the women's digital bikinis.
Games developer Tecmo has warned of legal action against anyone who publishes information that can be used to render the women in Dead Or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball completely nude during gameplay, according to a BBC website report on Tuesday.
Hackers of the game, made for Microsoft's Xbox console, have developed game patches or a computer code to alter the textures used to build the bodies of the women in the game.
Using these patches, hackers can make the voluptuous heroines appear totally naked.
Since the release of the game in January, several patches had appeared on the Internet Tecmo warned in a note posted on its official website: 'We're watching you very closely! Please do not post things that infringe copyrights and other legal issues.'
And in a message on Tecmo's official online forums, it told hackers to stop developing nude patches for Xtreme Beach Volleyball.
'Please do not post anything about nude patches and other hacked information or you will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. So far we're tracking one suspect, anybody care to be the second?'
This is not the first time game enthusiasts are stripping cyber babes. Last September, Tecmo won a court case in Japan over a computer code which allowed gamers to create a nude model in one of its titles.
