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October 10, 2006

Women and Games Are So Hot Right Now

Wow, everyone suddenly wants to know about women who game. It's interesting that every few months there is a flurry of press about women who game. Last week's burst of interest was stimulated in part by the upcoming release of the Desperate Housewives game, a title aimed primarily at women, and the BBC article, All women gamers please stand up. This past week I've answered a lot of questions over email, in person, and over the phone about women, games, and the "casual" game market.

Of course, we women gamers do play year round. Here are some places I recently discovered where women talk about videogames:

New Game Plus is a thoughtful, and unabashedly feminist, blog about games, although Ariel discusses other issues and passions too. It's a breath of fresh air.

The Feminist Gamers Livejournal is lively and their topics range far and wide. Lots of interesting stuff to read here.

Guilded Lilies mixes mods and mags, how can you resist that?

Wonderland is funny, brash, and lately, a bit WoW-obsessed. I can relate.

Shrub.com blog is Andrea Rubenstein's home on the net, where she has been mixing her personality with politics and entertainment for - oh, almost since the internet started I think! Never a dull read.

Acid for Blood is a personal gaming blog that mostly chronicles experiences (recently, Guild Wars and WoW), but she often uses the anecdote as a lens to examine larger issues.

There are so many more - which ones do you like to read?

Posted by jane at October 10, 2006 01:56 PM | TrackBack

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I don't know, I'd probably read anything where the site admins didn't have pics of them looking more like Suicide Girls than playing games. Listen, if you want to be considered a Girl Gamer, show pics of yourself sitting in front of a TV with a controller and not showing off your belly button piercing and low-rise jeans in a MySpace-esque pose. Frag Dolls, I'm looking at you. I really don't like the feeling that if I have one zit and period bloating I'll be scorned by the baby-tee wearing members of clans like that.

Yeah, I'm fat. Yeah, I play games. But gaming is the one popculture place I thought I could be without having to damn well starve myself to be looked at by a guy.

(Hey, does Amy Hennig have a blog? I read the article on the 100 Greatest Women in Gaming just to see if she was on it. I was 13 when EGM's Soul Reaver issue came out, and it was the first time the interviewee was female and central to the project. I thought it was so great! That, and she could do an interview without wearing a skimpy t-shirt.)

Posted by: Kujie

on October 10, 2006 06:11 PM

I really like Killer Betties. The site posts a lot of news regarding women in videogame news and have some really good reviews.

Posted by: jiggyj

on October 10, 2006 07:57 PM

Just thought I'd go ahead and plug Jade Reporting. We link to every single blog post and internet article we can get our hands on that deals with women and video games. We only link, so we don't pass judgement, but it's interesting, to say the least, to look at what posts about women and gaming usually consist of. (cough, sex, cough, cough.)

Posted by: 100littledolls

on October 10, 2006 09:47 PM

Thank you for the link... and the compliment! All great blogs you linked to. One Hundred Little Dolls is another great site.

Posted by: Lake Desire

on October 11, 2006 08:18 AM

Cheers for the link, jane! :D

Posted by: Brinstar

on October 11, 2006 09:47 AM

Killerbetties has been on my blogroll for a while! I like that site too, especially the forums.

Oh, I didn't know about 100 Little dolls, I'll check that out. Jade Reporting looks fascinating, too. Thanks!

Posted by: jane

on October 11, 2006 11:11 AM

I used to visit http://m_jane.1up.com & www.umamitsunami.com ...but unfortunately she hasn't been updating those pages in a while :-)

Posted by: darkchild82

on October 15, 2006 12:02 PM

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