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What do women want (in video games)?
There was an excellent post on Man Bytes Blog talking about women and video games the other day. Go read it.
This question comes up all the time on WomenGamers.com and the Girl Gamers Community. Indeed, if you post this question on WomenGamers.com, you’re likely to get called a troll […]

My computer parts have started shipping! Yay!
I was at Micro Center the other day, to scope out cases. Most of them were plasticky and really naff. I want something sexy and cool, not something that looks like a spray painted rendition of Optimus Prime, in case form.
I kind of wish I knew more about computers, […]

I’m getting a new computer! My friend is going to build it for me. I’ve never had a high-performance machine of my own, and now I’ll be able to play the current PC games! I ordered a bunch of parts last night. There are a few more things I need to order, and of course […]

E3. Blah blah blah. Yes I am reading about E3. Maybe it’s because I didn’t actually watch any video footage of the press conferences, but I’m underwhelmed by the revelations of the past few days.
According to one of my computer-y friends, Sony is the only one that’s doing something truly groundbreaking in terms of its […]

Oh my stars and garters! Thank you to everyone who commented recently!
On to the post.
I first played Katamari Damacy back in October 2004 at MAGFest. I was instantly hooked. Ignoring the long queues at the DDR machine, I instead spent a good chunk of the convention hunkered down in front of this little beauty of […]

At my particular GameStop, we had some regular customers from the cinema down the hall, including a former employee. When they take their breaks, then come down to the store and chat with us. All of them are fairly cool and very pleasant to talk to. They certainly know their games, that’s for sure. They […]

I forgot to blog about this yesterday in my excitement and pre-occupation with becoming a writer for Culture.Playgressive.
DDR was on the TV news again this week. A few months ago, it was on the Today show, and the other day it made my local Fox morning news show. Apparently it was a slow news day. […]

As if an audience of over 1 800 people on the Girl Gamers LJ Community wasn’t enough of an outlet for my gaming culture posts, I’m now blogging about games culture on the Playgressive Network. The name takes a bit of getting used to, but at least now I have some sort of quality standard […]

Seeing this post on Kotaku pointing to this article: Game skills pay off in real life (Mercury News) made me wonder whether I, as a gamer, am like the people cited in the article.
Got Game: How the Gamer Generating is Reshaping Business Forever is one of the books cited in the article. One of the […]

In the first of several installments, I will recount some of the more memorable moments during my time working in video game retail. Since the events are unrelated, I won’t be posting them in any sort of continuity order.
Like many retail workers, I was only a part-time employee. I have an office job, so I […]