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
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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
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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
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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
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