If there's one thing worse than a sex scene, it's a secret sex scene. And if there's one thing worse than a secret sex scene, it's a secret gay sex scene. The Daily Telegraph is on the case. The British publication had nothing better to run in its online videogaming section than the following expose:

The acclaimed new video game Dragon Age: Origins features a "secret" scene in which a man and an elf have gay sex, it has been disclosed.

The "it has been disclosed" is shorthand for "someone who played told us about it and we couldn't believe it". They put "secret" in quotes to mean "not secret", because anyone who's ever played a Bioware game knows that you can cultivate carnal relations in various pairings of gender and species. I'm surprised they weren't more fixated on the human/elf aspect. Surely that's illegal in some parts of the world. At the very least, I imagine the Queen frowns on it.

By the way, you get an achievement for having sex with your party members, which makes it even less of a secret scene. Also, it's not limited to dude-on-dude sex. I played a chick in Dragon Age, and I'm pretty sure I could have, uh, hooked up with Leliana if I'd just figured out better what presents I was supposed to give her.