Housewives and the everlasting fountain of entertainment that is video games

Posted by Helvetica | May 5, 2010

We’ve heard this one many, many times. That populations of many MMOs happen to cater to an altogether unexpected crowd: stay-at-home-moms and housewives. A great deal of middle aged women appear in the demographics of MMOs even as spillover from other more casual games. (In fact, we should point out, that several of our best-known hardcore raider friends are married women.)

This article, however, coming out of the London Times Online doesn’t do justice to this demographic. Hailing instead towards a rather poorly researched eye on one aspect of the effect of housewives playing MMOs. It spins a story with little evidence to talk about how countries like Korea sees it as a stigma, potentially a social disorder, that some housewives display an addiction to online gaming.

Although relatively new to online gaming compared with their counterparts in South Korea, Japanese women have taken to

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Top 10: Video Game women who don’t use sex to sell

Posted by Helvetica | October 14, 2009

Truly an excellent example of an article that warms our hearts, plus it happens to cover a lot of games we liked simply because they managed to speak to us out of narrative.

It’s no secret that females in video games are typically blatantly, sexualized byproducts of perverted character design. Between their skimpy attire and grossly exaggerated anatomy, most ladies featured in video games look more like prostitutes than crime-fighting, evil-slaying heroes. While games like Dead or Alive,Ninja Gaiden and Soulcalibur continue to perpetuate the demeaning myth that girls should dress like whores to sell games and kick ass, there are those leading ladies that have striven to break the stereotype.

So here are ten, completely badass video game ladies who are more concerned with messing up faces and ending lives than posing as pin-up girls for a nerdy version of Playboy. It

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