My Perfect Imperfect Video Game Heroine

My acting teacher taught me a variety of things, such as how to cry on command and sound really excited about floor wax.


November 5, 2010
News

Cliffy B: Heavy Rain Missed Its Chance With The Ladies

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.


October 18, 2010
In Real Life

How To Keep Your Man: Play Video Games

Cosmopolitan, which formerly advocated unplugging your man’s console to improve communication about feelings, now gets on the games bandwagon as a relationship builder. The survey it cites is three years old. From this month’s edition, seen via GamePro.


September 21, 2010
News

Just Thinking About Violent Video Games Stimulates Aggression

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.


August 11, 2010
In Real Life

‘Hot Piece Of Ass’ Busts Boss For FarmVille Obsession

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.


May 12, 2010

Brink: No Girls Allowed

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.


April 14, 2010
News

Should She Be Chainsawable?

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…


March 9, 2010
News

Why Modern Video Game Armies Lack Female Troops

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.


November 26, 2009
News

Nintendo Boasts 9 Million Advantage Among Female Console Gamers

The president of Nintendo of America wasn’t counting girls playing DS, mums playing PCs or sisters dabbling with the family’s Wii when he announced that there are more than 11 million females in the Americas who play consoles.


October 16, 2009

Will You Fight For Gratuitous Slow-Motion Panty Shots?

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.