Suuuuuure it isn’t. But Yoshinori Ueda thinks otherwise, saying that the game is not softcore porn or meant to be degrading to women.

Speaking with Eurogamer, Ueda said the developers’ only intention was to create beautiful and lovely girls.

“That’s certainly not something we’re intentionally going for,” he said. “From our perspective, we’re trying to make beautiful women, that has been the focus – we want our characters to be beautiful. The DOA characters are strong and that they look the way they do is based on trying to bring out the beauty of women.

“We’re certainly not trying to degrade women. They have beautiful bodies. We’re trying to show off the beauty of their bodies but we’re not trying to be degrading about it – we’re trying to show that they are beautiful characters.

“It’s not that we were trying to make softcore porn. That’s definitely not the goal.”

His words were in response to an ESRB description of the game that called it “creepy voyeurism” (that description has since been taken down and an apology was offered).

“We know that everyone is going to have a different experience with the game – everyone has their own opinion,” stated Ueda. “For us, the goal was really to offer a little bit of paradise to the users, and we hope that people playing the game will be able to come away with the feeling that they’ve visited paradise.

“What we offer is a selection of things to play and activities to have fun with. The players have the freedom to play Paradise however they want.”

European release of the game on April 2nd.

Tecmo’s confirmed that PSP game Dead or Alive: Paradise will be released in Europe on April 2nd.

Essentially, it’s a portable version of Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 so you’ll soon be able to play Tits & Ass: The Game wherever you go.

Gratuitous amounts of T&A hitting your PSP April 2nd.

Rumour has it that a fifth Dead or Alive game could be in-the-making, according to an article published on Go Fanboy yesterday.

Apparently, European retailers are being informed via distribution channels that a follow-up to Xbox exclusive Dead or Alive 4 is ‘in the works’, and it looks like it will be going multi-platform. Immediately the PlayStation 3 springs to mind as a potential candidate.

Nothing is definite at this time, as we have little more than Go Fanboy’s word to go on. However, we’re going to keep our ear to the ground on this one.

Being a massive Tekken fan, I would be interested to see, should rumour become reality, whether Tecmo’s Team Ninja can sway me from Namco’s prestigious fighting franchise.