Sexual harassment for female players in Starcraft2 thread by Jennifer Kesler @ The Hathor Legacy:Reader The Other Patrick sent us this link in which a female video gamer asks on a Starcraft2 forum if there are other female gamers interest in starting a women-only clan. The very first response is a male gamer demanding she post a picture of herself ( Read more... )

The Parasite Eve sequel will have ripped clothing as a "feature."One of the more amusing features of The 3rd Birthday is its clothing system -- you can have your clothing ripped off by enemy attack, and the more skin you reveal, the more vulnerable you are to damage. "Having this kind of alluring content is sort of a tradition for the series," ( Read more... )

Over at Gamasutra, Leigh Alexander writes: Games with female leads don't sell. At least that's what Activision believes, looking at top software sellers in any given year for evidence and choosing only projects that go with the trend, sources claim ( Read more... )

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This movie seems to have everything I like: kick-ass women, steampunk feel, every single geek trope ever and I'd be all over this if the women weren't so transparently only to be gawked at by male geeks. I mean jfc, look at this poster. It's sad because the concept seems fun and the trailer looks very pretty but the way it's marketed just makes ( Read more... )

Here Courtney Stoker talks to Amanda Hess about geek culture. There's a particular focus on fandom, but Stoker's thoughts can obviously be applied to things such as roleplaying, video gaming, etc. It's a nice interview.

Hess additionally followed up the post with Stoker's suggestions for making geeky spaces more attractive and inclusive towards ( Read more... )

Saw this video linked on Coilhouse and immediately thought of this comm. I think some of the messages it sends is ambiguous, but still a pretty awesome animation otherwise. I guess it would have been kinda difficult to represent "misogynist attitudes" in video game form.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Girls suck at video games / Les filles sont nulles aux jeux vidéo from ( Read more... )

Product placement for Playboy will be appearing in Dead Rising 2.

( Joystiq's JC Fletcher writes... )

As some may already know, PAX (a gaming convention) has a ban on booth babes. Recently, the men running it held a survey asking if they should consider repealing the ban. The majority of responses indicated people either liked or loved that booth babes were not part of the PAX experience; another 20% reported that they were indifferent to the ban. ( Read more... )

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