Video game industry still doesn't understand women
Posted: May 29, 2010 Filed under: video games, Women | Tags: Bastila, Carth, Carth Hate, consumerism, consumerism is dead, feminism, feminism in video games, G4tv.com, Game, great recession, Kalypso Media, Knights of the Old Republic, KOTOR, Lara Croft, Nintendo DS, puzzle games, Red Dead Redemption, Sex in the City, Tomb Raider, Tropico 3, Video game, Wii, Xbox 8 Comments »
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I just read this article over on G4tv.com by Kevin Kelly titled “Sex in the City 2: Gaming with the Girls“. I think the article was aiming to be a list of games you can get your girlfriend, who is a Sex in the City fanatic (hence the title). The games listed in the article aren’t half bad, except for the “soulless” Imagine: Fashion Designer, and Kelly wrote the article in an attempt to be humorous but happened to fail miserably. I know I shouldn’t get offended at Kelly’s attempt at humor, but Kelly wrote in exactly the way the gaming industry views women, a view that is insanely offensive considering we now make up more than 40% of the gaming population.
Any female I know that happens to like Sex in the City already plays video games. What video games do they play? At least some sort of web- based puzzle game when they are at work, and another normal game on their Wii, Xbox, DS or PC. The rest of the women I know that like Sex in the City are 40 and above, and are already playing some Bejeweled-type game online, which is, surprise, also A PUZZLE GAME.
Fruzs is going gaming
Posted: February 17, 2010 Filed under: Entertainment, Techology, video games | Tags: City of Heroes, Console role-playing game, empire total war, First-person shooter, Games, girl gamer, KOTOR, mass effect 2, Massively multiplayer online game, Napoleon Total War, Resident Evil, Rome Total War, Super Mario Bros, team fortress 2, Total War, Video game, video games, World of Warcraft 4 Comments »
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Yes, I will still sometimes write about public art and protesters, but my focus will be on video games from a female perspective. This switch should have happened last week, and it took Paul Tassi’s newest post “Why My Life Filled with Video Games is Not A Waste” to get me thinking seriously about this endeavor. Let me first introduce myself:
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