It sickens me people with sway in the industry hire more and more sexist twats to write their 'News', news which usually consists of things they've been sent in as tips and not true journalism work at all. Oh and let's not even begin to cover typos or content that has about as much to do with gaming as say peeling an orange might have to do with fishing.
Can we truly expect gaming to grow up and get over the "boys club" feel, when those that should be putting it forward as a mature hobby are essentially just spouting a lot of sexist shit - either in an obvious manner or in an ongoing subtext - in the direction of their readers?
I think its a fair complaint when tits and ass shots seemingly take precedence over gaming news or booth babes take precedence over development and other issues.

Remember that babysitting game we mentioned a few days ago. Well we decided to contact the developers and ask a very simple question. "could you confirm whether or not it is possible to play a male babysitter in the title: My Dream Job: Babysitter". We got the response back today, and of course it was just as we'd suspected:
Sarah Palin seems to be getting more and more coverage of late and now she's even entered the realm of video gaming. Gaming site
LucasArts have frakked us female gamers with their new characters for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. They're releasing new downloadable characters you can play in the single player campaign... GREAT! I thought with a Star Wars fangirl excited yelp, "I'll get to play through as a female character" especially given their are 4 characters incoming. No screamed LucasArts, you get 4 male characters so frak you! The new characters include Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and Kit Fisto - ALL male! Apparently these skins were decided on based on what they heard from fanboys... sorry... "fans", that being the very vocal fanboy contingent.... FFS common sense LucasArts!! Is it really that difficult to assume perhaps some of the people to have purchased Star Wars: The Force Unleashed are FEMALE?!?!
Games girls play are apparently all the same, you see it all the time, in marketing, design and also conversation. We 'girls' as a species - set apart from the boys - have a strange chromosomal freaky thing happening wherein it is only the Y chromosome that allows you free thought and the idea of choice in gaming. Women gamers you see ALL like the same thing, we all love the EXACT same titles and we all loathe the exact same titles. It's a scientific fact, argue as you might this baby is cast in stone and it was handed down to Moses on some mountain someplace.....

Gears of War 2 really pisses me off. Why I hear you cry, because it had the opportunity to appease its many female fans with at least one female Delta Squad member and Bleszinski (aka CliffyB) and Co. opted to completely ignore our demographic and go the all male route again. Yes the latest pre-release trailer is out and it discusses two new major characters in the form of Dizzy Wallin (aka the 'hick') and Ty Kaliso (aka a hippy Mr T), both brawny testosterone flooded meat-heads. So what else is new?
With the Halo MMO out of the bag and under the axe, we can safely dissect this creature - one would hope - and check out yet more double standards in female characterization. It seems like every game concept that features male and female marines, fighters, soldiers, 'insert gaming hero here' must adhere to a specific gaming lore, and it is this "women must be ultra thin and / or have flesh showing, regardless of environmental or enemy danger". I'm pretty sure that is how it is actually written in the big smelly testostertome that game designers presently refer to... and yeah I just made up 'testostertome' and it shall from now on be known as that aka 'the big sexist book of game design'.



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