Acid for Blood

After I started my new job a couple of months ago, I was going to respond immediately to the bigoted, ignorant, and narrow-minded views of several people in various gaming communities. Since then I’ve been busy at work and at home, and frankly I haven’t been in much of a mood to blog, nor have […]

My, my, it’s been a while. Let’s do a brief gaming update.

Have not been playing Guild Wars like I said I would. Am planning on playing for at least a few hours this coming weekend.
Have, however, been playing Mario Kart DS and Guitar Hero III.
Sadly, have not gotten a Rock Band fix since last year.
Got […]

The September issue of Cerise Magazine included an article on “the positive aspects of women-oriented gaming communities”. I know that many gamers, men and women, are against women-only or women-oriented gaming communities, guilds, and clans on the basis that these communities segregate and that they divide women gamers from the gaming community as a whole. […]

Really quickly before I head out (late).
Each panelist was instructed to introduce themselves, how they got into games, and how they got into the industry. The moderator was Trixie from Xbox.com. Apparently her reputation precedes her and she doesn’t need to be introduced with a last name. The panelists were Jane Pinckard from CMP (the […]

One of my pet peeves of gaming culture (and I guess culture in general, since I’ve heard non-gamers use the word this way) is how gamers use the word ‘rape’. I recently read a blog post which explains that:
To some people rape is just four letters put together to make a monosyllabic sound… To others […]

The Gaming Bitch writes about women and games (emphasis mine):
Women identify themselves as Girl Gamers and are proud of the moniker. They put up with the images in games, because they really like to game. Here’s the thing though, women are at a disadvantage in the world of computer games, and no matter what, a […]

One of the interesting things about the whole set of issues associated with women gamers is that women, unsurprisingly, have different views on these matters — if they choose to consider any of this as at all important. Some of them claim that there shouldn’t be a ruckus about women and gaming, but they still […]

Priceless quote from a commenter on a recent Joystiq post about Gaymer.org (emphasis mine):
I’m sick of hearing about gay gamers and female gamers. When 90% of their audience is straight men, why would any developer care about any of you? I know that trying to segregate yourselves is a lame attempt at getting a bit […]

This week’s Escapist contains a great article that discusses whether femme fatale, Ada Wong of the Resident Evil series, is a strong feminist role model. The article begins with an introduction to the concepts in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex and then uses it as a framework to discuss the women of Resident Evil.
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The first issue of Cerise, an online magazine dedicated to electronic and non-electronic games, is now up. Cerise is a feminist (Is that still a “bad” word?) publication focused on gender issues in games and games culture. It was created by women gamers, with the intended audience being primarily women gamers. Although the focus is […]