Here is a great bit of news on the gaming front. Recently, BioWare released their newest role-playing game, Dragon Age II. In it, you have five companions your protagonist (who can be male or female and any race) can start a relationship with: one is chaste and available only to women protagonists (!), and the other four (two men, two women) are available to protagonists [...]
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I finished up Dragon Age: Origins a day or two ago, and I admit that I’m pretty impressed. It has its failings where inclusiveness and sensitivity is concerned, but it also has some real strong points, many of which lie in your PC’s potential relationships. I’m thrilled that the game made romance optional and gave touching dialogue and important interactions to platonic relationships; I also [...]
This bit of hilarity came up in response to the recent discussions about the ridiculous amount of sexual harassment women and girls have to endure if they want to game. For those using text browsers, it’s a flow chart entitled “How to be a Chauvinist Gamer Dude.” The top step is “Deny that female gamers exist.” This flows to “A female gamer shows up!” which [...]
In response to our recent story on Sexual harassment for female players in Starcraft2 thread, reader mOnion commented: I have an incriminating recording of one of the mods from the site saying to a young lady “bitch make me a sandwiche, I’m busy playing starcraft” if you’d like a copy of the .mp3 just followup this comment I was skeptical, because, you know, how do [...]
[ETA: follow-up here. Oh, those sillies.] Reader The Other Patrick sent us this link: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=147426 [Ed. Note: which they have since locked so you have to join the forum to read it - 11-3-10] in which a female video gamer asks on a Starcraft2 forum if there are other female gamers interest in starting a women-only clan. The very first response is a male gamer [...]
At first, when it was reported that a new video game enables you, as the main female character, to shoot men who harass you on the street, I thought “Ha ha, tables turned.” But after a look at this trailer video, I changed my mind: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krvA3VHq5as Basically, you’re looking down a gun barrel and walking along on the street while men approach and street harass [...]
Trigger warning: there’s a video game called RapeLay. I’ve read a lot of descriptions of it online, and much discussion of whether it should be sold and by whom (do not miss Shakesville on this creepy Amazon backdoor rape search). I’m going to describe the game and then provide a meaningful answer to precisely what’s wrong with it. See, once you read the description, vomit, [...]
