Joking that women “love two things in life, queso dip and true crime”, Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski told a podcast that he felt Heavy Rain missed out on bigger sales by not marketing itself more to the fairer sex.
A new study by researchers from Ohio State and Central Michigan Universities finds that simply thinking about playing violent video games can stimulate violent behaviour long after your game console has gone cold, unless you’re a girl.
Young woman has job. Boss calls young woman “hot piece of ass”. Young woman quits, uses dry erase board to fire back. Boss, it seems, loved playing FarmVille during work hours too much.
Once again, we’re talking about why we can’t play war games as female avatars. This time, guest blogger Brad Gallaway weighs in on the male-dominated Brink.
It’s not a given that a war video game will have female fighters, but if Gears of War 3 does, the designers will have to decide if they will have equal opportunities to experience the game’s signature actions…
Women have been serving admirably in combat in the US military for about a decade. But they’re absent from the ranks of modern video game armies. A game developer offered Kotaku a justification of why we virtually fight as men.
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.