This morning I got a press release from EA promoting their latest competition; the chance for two female gamers from the UK and Ireland to win a job as spokesperson on Need for Speed: The Run. It is nice to see that EA are thinking about their female fans, even though I’m not personally a supporter of positive discrimination. Hot [...]
I never imagined I’d be on the opposite side to men writing about the unacceptability of domestic violence. Last week I finally got to play Duke Nukem Forever’s deathmatch and other PvP games. I described the multiplayer modes in our hands-on preview yesterday. This article is about one mode in particular, Capture The Babe. When it comes to Capture the [...]
Someone told me last week that we need more There just aren’t enough vocal female gamers. Sure, it’s always nice to find other women who share my favourite hobby. Plenty of us online. This is not an exhaustive or representative list by any means – just a few of the lovely gaming ladies that I’ve come across over the past [...]
As much as I do love my angry rants (and I did set up a dedicated category for ranting on this very blog), tonight I’m just sad at the current state of affairs when it comes to including women. Not one, but TWO massive games houses have proven today that the female demographic is nothing more than an afterthought. First [...]
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 [...]
Have you heard about the Miss Video Game 2007 competition? It’s a competition claiming to “To assist in the proliferation of females in gaming genres of all types and to help raise awareness of the female gaming audience among game publishers and advertisers” by showcasing photos of women who “don’t mind video games”. It’s also definitely not a beauty pageant, [...]
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