Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 20th Mar, 2011 5:13 pm
Earlier this week I interviewed Rod Fergusson, executive producer on Gears of War 3. I talked to Fergusson about Gears and how Epic Games are appealing to the female gamer. "From a fiction standpoint, Gears of War 3 is really about the end of the coalition, the end of civilisation, the end of the military. Things have become more desperate so that notion that even Anya having to pick up arms and become a soldier and fight for her life... the sense of survival is really a really quick indicator that the world has changed. "
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 22nd Feb, 2011 6:42 pm
I caught up with Mike Laidaw of Bioware over the weekend at the Guardian Gamesblog Live EA event. Being a huge BioWare fangirl, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to get a little one-on-one time with the lead designer of upcoming swords-and-sorcery RPG, Dragon Age 2. Among other things, we talked about the challenge involved in making a protagonist with whom [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 15th Oct, 2010 10:58 am
This month’s gamer banter is an unusually specific question: Has a character redesign ruined how you feel about a character? Yes, yes, a thousand times yes! I was a big fan of Lara Croft as a teenager. In a world saturated with male action stars, male scientists and, of course, male archaeologists, Lara was a welcome sight. Here was a [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 11th Jul, 2009 1:13 pm
Every once in a while I come over all responsible and talk about about how the videogame industry should make more of an effort to appeal to women. Some time I pointed out Ayumi’s shocking character design and attracted a couple of vocal trolls, a bit of abuse and thankfully, some thoughtful posts from both men and women. I tried [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 20th Jul, 2008 10:09 pm
It’s nice to sit back and relax on a Sunday night after a good holiday. All the better tonight because I’ve stumbled across Velvet Assassin, a WWII (yawn) stealth-shooter (intriguing…) with a humanly-proportioned, fully-dressed female protagonist (O.M.G!). Her name is Violette Summer and she is supposedly inspired by a Special Operations Executive agent named Violette Szabo. The real Violette fought [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 24th Aug, 2006 6:03 pm
Stumbled across this Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops screenshot on Joystiq. I see EVA’s boobs are still proudly on display. Go to the Joystiq article if you want more MGS:OP pics. Okay, maaaaaaybe if she was in the middle of a heated battle and her zipper burst and she had more important things on her mind like surviving to be [...]
Debbie Timmins (Weefz) / 7th Aug, 2006 11:10 pm
So, I caved and bought* a £4 copy of Edge this month almost, but not entirely, on the basis that the front cover was comprised of cutesy drawings of the LucasArts adventure staples of my childhood. But in addition to the LucasArtsy goodness there’s an article on female characters in games. No special revelations in it really (few women in [...]
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