If you've ever been to E3 or any of the large industry game cons -- or read about them after the fact you no doubt know about "booth babes." Now I suppose I can't really complain too much. After all, games of all varieties and genres are filled with mostly naked, super shapely, a$$-kicking, hyper-armed, sleek babes who would kill as soon as kiss you. All this does rile my feminist side just a tad, but I realize its business and besides, it doesn't interfere with my game play so I'll forgive them and overlook the blatant sexism. My big problem is that these "booth babes" are frauds.

By ROSS MARTIN - Fairfax Media | Saturday, 13 September 2008

Video games are typically a male domain - made by males for other males and about male heroes.

There are a few exceptions, like Lara Croft of Tomb Raider fame and Zelda, who has evolved over the years from a damsel in distress to a heroine in her own right. But these pixel princesses were designed by males, generally for the entertainment of other male games.

For every Zelda there are a hundred Marios, just like for every girl gamer there are a hundred guys.

GamerchiX Unite!

By: Kelly Adams
GiN Editorials Correspondent

I'm 33 years old, married for 12 years, and a female gamer. As a woman, I put up with the occasional idiot male in public, but they are rare. As a female gamer, I've put up with the idiot males since I first went onto Xbox Live with my own screen name. It seems to never end. Thankfully good guys are out there but the bad ones are really starting to ruin the experience of matchmaking on Live. Allow me to walk you through what a female gamer is subjected to. You may hear one of the following comments:

by Geek Woman of WomenGamers.com

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Online doesn't have the sharpest looking graphics or the most interesting missions you'll ever play. What they are going for with this title is as casual interest MMO. With the millions of fans of the movie IP and the millions of DVD's sold it was a pretty sure thing for Disney to poop out this game and expect to make a bundle. Even with its offered free-to-play mode, you can be sure that there is revenue coming in or they wouldn't have made a business model like this one.

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