Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – Amazing Black Friday Deal
BestBuy is offering an amazing Black Friday deal on Assassin’s Creed: Revelations. Its offering this amazing game for only $34.99 on both Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
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NVIDIA Tegra 3: Next Generation in Games to Mobile Devices
Nvidia has just launched the quad-core ARM Cortex A9 Tegra 3 processor… God damm it makes your games look sick. I could bore you with all the finer details we received from the press release, but whats the point. Here is the video to prove it.
Women in the Video Game Industry
As males are usually the ones playing video games (or so it’s assumed), it makes sense that guys would make up the majority of the gaming industry. The number of women employed in the field is paltry in comparison. However, the Entertainment Software Association conducted research in 2011 showing the number of females in the industry is on the rise, and women now make up 42 percent of all gamers. Females over the age of 18 are one of the quickest growing gamer demographics. Although video game studies aren’t so prevalent a field yet that there are any PhD options online, dedicated game development education is also growing and seeing an influx of female students. Despite this swelling of the ranks, women still have a hard time finding their way into the professional field of video games. Not only do they remain in the minority, they’re also paid less than their male counterparts.
Females are rarely treated with the same respect as males in the gaming industry, both in online and real-life interactions. Women working in the world of gaming aren’t taken as seriously as men. What continues to makes things even worse is the prevalent portrayal of females in video games: many are dressed in provocative clothing to accentuate extra-large busts, like the archetypal Lara Croft. Tammy Yap, a video game programmer for six years, says she asked one of her male colleagues (she was the only female) why women were always dressed like Vegas show girls. After all, this might offend some women and drive them away from gaming. The reply she received was: “What difference does it make? Women don’t play games.” Her colleague’s retort serves as a good example of the general attitude of most men when it comes to women gamers.
Unfortunately, female gamers aren’t getting their opinions attended to in the video game world. With so few women working in the industry, the video game market is close to being entirely ruled by men. Without having a female representative making her voice heard in the industry, female gamers won’t find as many games that they’re interested in on the market. Famous video game producer Denise Fulton thinks if more women played video games, then more women would start landing jobs in the industry. The consensus is that they would if more games were available that were more appealing to female players.
Playing video games is still branded as a boyish hobby. Women looking to enter the gaming industry already have it tough, but the rate at which they are finding jobs may stagnate if fellow female gamers aren’t willing to step up. Thankfully, this path has already begun being forged by prominent gaming women such as Morgan Webb and Denise Fulton, and indeed the evidence suggests the number of girls playing games is rising. Perceptions are already changing, and it may be only a matter of time before women’s presence in the game industry better reflects their growing numbers among players.
Splinter Cell: Tactical Light Shooting
The Splinter Cell games are absolute classics. This is how I wish I could play the game.
GameStop With Android Tablet Ambitions
Gamestop seem to be a company jumping all over the place at the moment. Gamestop has noticed that no one seems to be buying games from your basic game shops, thus they are trying to find other revenue streams. Last week it was leaked that they are working on a Steam competitor and now it has been announced they are working on their own Android gaming tablet! Really.. a Gamestop gaming tablet! No one is going buy that surely.
via CNET
Real Life DDR (Dance Dance Revolution)
I never thought I would see Dance Dance Revolution in real life, but here it is.
Sexy Portal 2 Long Socks
This is for the sexy gamer girls out there. You can now get your own long leg portal 2 socks!
LG Hosting LG Optimus 3D Gaming Launch on August 24th
LG will be holding a special press event on the 24th of August in London. The event will showcase LGs new LG Optimus 3D, which has glasses-free gaming!
At the event LG will showcase some evening tournaments on Real Football 2011 3D, Assassin’s Creed 3D, Avatar 3D, Fishing Kings 3D, Shrek Kart 3D and Spiderman Total Mayhem 3D. It will be interesting to see how good the 3D gaming is on the LG Optimus 3D!
We will keep you posted!
