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Will You Fight For Gratuitous Slow-Motion Panty Shots?
1:20AM Mike Fahey | Namco Bandai’s remarkably subtle and slow “What Will You Fight For?” viral videos for Tekken 6 get a lot less subtle the second time around. More »
Warning: Producer of Metal Gear Solid touch *is* Female
8:00PM Kotaku US Edition | This week’s Famitsu has an interview with Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear Solid Touch producer Yasuyo Watanabe. The headline for the story is very careful to accentuate that Watanabe is female. How careful, you ask? More »
The Difference Between ‘Female Gamers’ and ‘Gamer Girls’
12:00AM Owen Good | We treat them like a rare species, but really, women who game are not that uncommon. Recent polls have put the figure between 35 and 40 percent of women, a minority but not a scarcity. Negative Gamer’s Chelsea — aka Nintendoll — spotted something elsewhere that set her teeth on edge, and she wants to set the record straight about the reasons women and girls game. Because in her view the experience risks getting cliquey and catty, like high school. More »
Nintendo Celebrates Women’s Power, Cooking Skills
3:20AM Mike Fahey | Nintendo loves the ladies, and they’ll be proving it tomorrow and Wednesday with their strong presence at the 5th Annual Women’s Conference in Southern California. Hosted by California’s first lady Maria Shriver, the Women’s Conference celebrates the power of women to make a difference in their communities. Let’s see what Nintendo has going on at the conference: Conference-goers can take a break and get some exercise with Wii Fit, jam to some of their favourite tunes with Wii Music or learn some new recipes and great cooking tips with the new Personal Trainer: Cooking. A cooking game? Really? Yes ladies, you too can be a powerful instrument of social change, after Nintendo teaches you how to make delicious sammiches. Mmmmm. Hit the jump for more details on what’s sure to be an epic event. They’ve even got Bono! More »
Play Wii Fit With Japanese Maids
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | You know what’s missing with Wii Fit? Nope. It’s maids! That’s right, maids. Over in Akihabara’s Refresh Club, folks can play Wii Fit with maids in frilly dresses. Like most things, Wii Fit maid style comes at a price: 30 minutes will run you ¥2,600. Says the establishment’s owner: Playing Wii Fit by yourself is lonely. But here, playing along with a maid makes exercising enjoyable. That’s a good point, and we’re now slightly shocked Nintendo didn’t bundle the game with maids. If Wii Fit is not your thing, Refresh Club runs other services like ear cleaning, foot massages and yoga — make that, maid yoga. Refresh Club [Candy Fruit via Akiba Keizai via alafista] More »
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Game Journalists Regularly Wooed By Hot Japanese Women
1:20AM Mike Fahey | Oh Dan “Shoe” Hsu, what dark secrets of the video game press won’t you expose? In the latest episode of Behind the Scenes: Gaming Journalism, a report on all the things the gaming press does and has done to them appearing on his and Crispin Boyer’s website Sore Thumbs, Shoe explores the seedy world of free baseball games and Japanese escorts. Editors fly to Japan fairly regularly to visit Japanese game studios. And those studios and their respective publishers will usually entertain these editors — dinner, drinks…the usual. But I guess flying into strange, alien lands deserves high-end hospitality, so Tecmo in the past has treated their American journalist guests to evenings out at Japanese hostess bars, watering holes where women are paid to keep customers company (not necessarily in a “me so horny!” way…it’s more of a “let me keep filling your drinks and you are so funny and handsome and wonderful and let me hang on to your every word!” male-insecurities-nuking thing). Maybe that in itself is nothing shocking, but this part might be: Tecmo has literally spent thousands of dollars giving a very small handful of American editors some lady companionship for one night. Thousands. That’s some pricey conversating. More »
Women Choose Video Games Over Sleep
1:40AM Mike Fahey | While I knew that 99.99% of women would rather play video games than sleep with me, the results of a poll conducted by women’s website PoshMama.com for E for All discovered that many of them would rather play games than sleep period. The website polled 120 women, and then dug some interesting statistics out of the 71% of women who tested gaming-positive. For instance, many of the women admitted to playing video games when they should be doing more important things, such as sleeping (more than 33%), on the phone (32%), or while at work (20%). A whopping 53% admitted that gaming had made them late for family and social gatherings. Hit the jump for more results from the E for All / PoshMama survey. Just keep one thing in mind – this is a poll from a women’s exclusive website, meaning at least 50% of the respondents are men claiming to be women who think men are icky and want to experience a more feminine touch. More »
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The Top 20 Women In Gaming
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | No. Before you start, no. Whatever it was you were thinking, or were going to ask, no. It’s not here. She’s not here. Instead, Gamasutra’s list of the top 20 women in gaming focuses on those with the biggest impact on the medium today, whether as developers, executives or even writers. The list is unranked (ie it doesn’t count down from 20 to 1), and while it contains some pleasant surprises (Valve’s Kim Swift, for example), there’s sadly no room for my favourite, Zoë Mode. I don’t care that she’s not a real woman. She’s still my favourite. Women in Games: The Gamasutra 20 [Gamasutra] [Pic: Game Informer] More »
Will More Gamer Girls Mean More Gamer Women?
10:40AM Leigh Alexander | A new Next-Gen Screen Digest piece takes a peek back into console market war history to see how Nintendo seems to have won out in the quest for that most elusive of goals: bringing a broader audience of women and girls into the gaming fold. In the last console generation, Nintendo’s GameCube appeared to lag behind as Sony and Microsoft battled it out for the twenty-to-thirtysomething male demographic – but time has shown that Nintendo’s patience in luring a more casual audience has brought in ladies’ loyalties, as well, with the cute lil’ DS as strategic lynchpin: More »
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