Art and Crafts

Target is offering an exclusive Mario and Princess Bling Skin when you buy a DS lite
Something you might enjoy
Gamer Girl Designs
A fistful of video game art and music
Comic watch – Get Fuzzy
Video Game Art of the Week: “Samus Aran: Open Hatch”

Character Related

Megaman seeks Megawomen
Tifa and Aeris deified
Character design changes in Heavenly Sword’s leading lady Nariko?
Where the f*ck is Carmen Sandiego?
My Avatar, My Not-Self: Narrative Worlds Within Video Games
Birdo, Mii-ified
Kongs, Tiny and Candied
Mrs. Petey Piranha
Vivian? [NSW]

Game Debate to the Death!Samus VS Jade
Game Debate to the Death! Jill VS Tifa
Game Debate to the Death! Tifa VS Aeris

Women Who Changed Gaming
Women Who Changed Gaming: Part 1 – Ms. Pac-Man
Women Who Changed Gaming: Part 2 – Samus Aran
Women Who Changed Gaming: Part 3 – Chun-Li
Women Who Changed Gaming: Part 4 – Lara Croft
Women Who Changed Gaming: Part 5 – Jade
Women Who Changed Gaming: Part 6 – Wrapping Up

Game Specific

Japanese Gears of War viral ads; the Japanese are wacky! Who knew?
Cooking Mama for the Wii: Hey my Wii still works!
Dragon Ball MMO coming to Japan in 2008
Sailor Moon Wii rumored, five free fan games incoming
Ys coming to Vista with mega bonus disku
Curable diseases are for wimps: new Eternal Sonata images
Spore Has Gender, Too
Retro Metroid TV Ads Redefine Cool
Bullet Witch
Tomb Raider: Anniversary on Steam

Funcom to Follow Dreamfall with Dreamfall Chapters
Review: FunCom’s “Dreamfall: The Longest Journey” (2006)
Dreamfall – Sex on Legs?

Ten Little Ni**ers coming to the Wii
Agatha Christie Comes to the Wii

Attack your boss for massive damage
Jeanne d’Arc announced for the PSP

Gender Roles

Historical NPCs, warts and all
Does it amuse anyone else…
Playing a Male Character
Get your poor grandmother out of that home and into a Wii bowling league
Final Fantasy history in video; bishi doesn’t even begin to describe it
The Godfather: Blackhand Edition lets you virtually choke a B*tch
How MMOs get made
Feminism is a role playing issue…
The Blood Elf Diaries

Harassment

“Just go in the damn shop and buy the damn game!”
*Eye Roll*
Thanks to you!
What some folks can do, if they choose [tangential]
Selected Readings from “girl, /ignored”

Miscellaneous

Want to Be the Envy of the Guys in Your Group?
Making Friends And Influencing People With X-Box Live Vision Camera

The IRIS Network
The IRIS Network
Iris Network
Subverting the Statues Quo, One Gamer at a Time
The IRIS Network: Community and Magazine for Women Gamers

Girl Gamer Award Nominations
Gameinatrix announces Girl Gamer Awards
Girl Gamer Awards Nominees & the Fight for Equality
Girl Gamer Award nominations for 2006 — 2007 out today

Real Life Impact

Nihilium only for boys?
The male reaction!
A quick note on old-schoo video gaming
Blog Against Sexism Day
A Leap Into the Virtual
GDC 2007 Recap
Gongonzabar Rants: Perceptions of Gaming

Real Live Gamers

Searching For Chobot.
Praise for Faith!
Ugh. -Does this post look funny to anyone else?-
I am Forsaken
Photo Album: Women in Gaming Party

Forums and Chatrooms
Forums and Chatrooms Part 2

Introduction Threads

Introductions Introductions….
In which we introduce ourselves…
Hi everyone
Hooray!
Hallo everybody!
Hello Fellow Gamers!
Helloooo Nurse(s)!

Sex and Sexuality

Plenty ‘O Videos
Phoenix Wright = porn?
Proud of what’s in your pants?
God of War 2 … R E M I X E D
Nerdcore #6: Guns, guitars & girls oh my! [NWS]
Tell the world how she broke your heart with this Ms. Pac-Man T-Shirt
Unintentionally sexual moments in Wii
Distribution of Virtual Porn
Distribution of Virtual Porn
Joystiq: The difficulty of contact in game sex
No Xbox Live Panty Raid

More haterade: Finland PS3 porn launch?
No avatar-on-avatar action in PS3 Home
Rape Games: Erotic Fun or Normalization of Rape?
Will the Real ‘Top Model’ Stomp Out the Virtual One?
Princess Peach Fucking Bowser’s Cock with Naked Yuna Eating Rikku’s Pussy While Being Tentacle Raped by a Monster All While My Girlfriend Shits Herself [EXTREMELY NOT WORK SAFE!!!!!!]

Aussie Game Journos Offered Sex For Good Reviews
Reason #434 to move to Oz: Aussie game journos offered sex for bonzer reviews

Miscellaneous

The IRIS Network

Women Gamers’ Forum Launched
IRIS Network on Kotaku, sort of
Yes, Kotaku, you WERE the reason why we started TIN! And also, Santa is real.
I Read the Internets – 3/24/07
Your intellectual superior approves of how you’ve acted now that he’s given you permission to exist
Forums and Chatrooms
Links of interest!”

Girl Gamer Award Nominations

And The Girl Gamer Award Nominees Are…
And The Girl Gamer Award Nominees Are…

Nintendo is Wiining with Women?

The Future of Gaming

Need some help from the gamer chicks

Game Specific

Girl Power Hour – Girls Pwning Thunderhead Keep
Girl Power Hour – Girls Pwning Thunderhead Keep

Want to Be the Envy of the Guys in Your Group?

DS Teaching Japanese Women To Walk Beautifully

God of War II

Women Don’t Like Sex on Roller Coasters

‘Second Life’ Sex Business Sells On eBay For $50,000

What ‘Final Fantasy XI’ Taught Me About Being a Woman

Final Fantasy VI GBA First Impressions

Gender Roles

Creating a Misogyny-Free Zone in an MMORPG World

Cosplay on The Feed, G4.

“Lady, Get Off the Road”

Gaming in Academia

Abstract Accepted

Real Live Gamers

The IRIS Network
The IRIS Network is Live
The IRIS Network: Cerise Magazine Networking Women Gamers
The IRIS Network Launches!
New Gaming Site: The IRIS Network
The IRIS Network: Women Gamers’ Forum Launch
The IRIS Network

Jade Reporting: Gender & Games Resource

If I Were A Man I’d Be A Blogger
Women game bloggers
Female Gamers
Feminism, Gaming and ‘Heroes’[Killer Betties]
Feminism, gaming and “Heroes”

I am not a #&!$ing “Girl Gamer”…/curtsey

I’m a Sucker for Flashing Lights
Q&A: Quizzing The Queen Bee Of ARGs, Jane McGonigal

Geeksugar Interviews Play-Girlz’s Ingrid Diaz
Geeky Girl We Love: Ingrid Diaz of Play Girlz

One Life Left vs. Girl_Gamers

Nintendo is Wiining with Women?

Best Buy-obviously I don’t know what I’m talking about because I’m female

Asking for your girly opinion…

Harassment

…Well, that didn’t take long

Game Design

SXSW: Will Wright Keynote
SXSW: Getting Girls Into The Game
Designing and Marketing Games For Female Players
Getting Girls Into The Game: Designing and Marketing Games for Female Players
SXSW panel on Getting Girls into the Game
Marketing to women: step 1

Don’t sell to my boobs…Just acknowledge them

Character Related

ZOMG! SAMUS, YOUR BUTT IS ON FIRE!

Fatal Frame Cosplay

Game Specific

First Time in FoW

What Final Fantasy XI taught me about being a woman
Final Fantasy XII: Why Vaan
Creating a misogyny-free zone in an MMORPG world

Girl’s Side: 1st Love

Girl Power Hour-Girls Pwning Sorrow’s Furnace
Girl Power Hour-Girls Pwning Sorrow’s Furnace [Girl Gamers]
Girl Power Hour-Girls Pwning FoW
Girl Power Hour-Girls Pwning FoW[Girl Gamers]

Sexism and Zelda

Open Thread: Roll d12 Initiative
Friday Knights

Spanking and Anal Probing FTW!

Sex and Sexuality

“We Fit Together!”

Celebrity Related

A Case of the Mondays…

Miscellaneous

Yes, You Can Comment on Kotaku

Long Live Computer Games Magazine

I Read the Internets-3/24/07
I Read the Internets-3/17/07

Write for Killer Betties!

sailor moon/gamer fans unite
she has a laser scowl
Girl Gamer Tats

Miscellaneous

Dragon covers (a dnd magazine)
Dragon covers, part two
Dragon covers, part three
Dragon covers, part four
Dragon covers, part five
Dragon covers, part six
Dragon covers, part seven
Dragon editor responds

Game Specific

Spore has gender too

Real live Gamers

Wet Snow, Wonderwoman and writng a LARP
Feminism, gaming and “Heroes”

Game Design

GDC 2006 recap: Wife o meter
Fable 2 uses the improbability drive

Real Life

Maybe adult gamers aren’t one-off freaks after all!

Real Life Impact

Animal Crossing in Miyamoto’s Keynote: Miyamoto’s wife and game sales [digg]
Animal Crossing in Shigeru Miyamoto’s Keynote at GDC

Real Live Gamers

My First Meme: Video Game Covers I Want to See

An Apology to All Female Gamers

Kotaku Wants Women Bloggers
Now You Know (And Knowing is Half the Battle)

Go Ask Alice: Game Industry Enui?

Girl Power Hour–Girls Pwning Sorrow’s Furnace

Beauty and the L337:”On the influence of casuals”
Beauty and the L337: “On Gears of War”

An introduction, and a rant
A Woman of Wealth and Taste
Who am I? Why am I being followed around by this floating, wisecracking skull?
You have found…a BLOG! Set it to use with Z.

Game Specific

Silent Hill (2006)

(Wo)Man’s Best Friend: Fable 2
Fable 2 uses the improbability drive

Sexism and Zelda

Tomb Raider: Anniversary [digg]
We Put old and new Tomb Raider side-by-side
Tomb Raider: Anniversary North American retail packshot released [digg]
Tomb Raider: Anniversary North American retail packshot released

Will Bully [digg]
Wii Bully

Wherefore art thou?

Sex and Sexuality

The Stupid, It Burns
Controversial?

Photos Of The Gaygamer GDC Party Are Up!

Gaming in Academia

RR6: Fair Play

Miscellaneous

Amy Reads the Week (of March 9th 2007)

Pink PS2 Headed Down Under

Tomonobu Itagaki is working on something totally new

Real Life Impact

More of Bonnie’s GDC Coverage

I saw this poster today on the Seoul subway

Real Live Gamers

On Women and Gaming

From A Very Frustrated Female Gamer

Female Gaming Kickin’ On Campus

Moving The Sims from PC to Wii

Game Covers Women Want To See
Girl-Friendly Game Covers

Character Related

Sexism is Sexy: Women Leads in Videogames
The 50 Greatest Female Characters in Videogame History
The Top Ten Girls of PSP
13 Most Beautiful Avatars In Second Life
Japan’s Most Popular Xbox 360 Female Characters

Peachy Peach Cosplay

Game Specific

360 Splinter Cell to Get Female Characters, Too

The Girl Gaming Network–Our 5 favorite games

Game Journal: Goat Sisters and Bird of Happiness

Celebrity Related

Legendary Thread: WoW and Tyra Banks

Sex and Sexuality

Are gay characters becoming a ‘non-troversy’?
Last Call: GayGamer Party Tonight!

Brenda Braithwaite On Sexuality, Homophobia, Serious Games

The difficulty of contact in game sex

Olivia Munn pauses games, talks oral sex

Miscellaneous

Elf Robs Lingerie Store

Kotaku’s Crecente & His Swingin’ Balls Stand Up To Sony

Hand Knit Space Invaders Socks!

Real Life Impact

GDC Related
Miyamoto Mii graces Nintendo Chests
Joystiq and Engadget live at Nintendo’s 2007 GDC keynote
GDC: Miyamoto’s keynote
Ray finds her first line in a GDC women’s restroom
First women’s suffrage and now this

Real Live Gamers

Getting Girls to Play
Girls who play Guitar Hero are hot. [digg]

How to get your girlfriend to play video games
How To Get Your Girlfriend To Play Video Games [digg]
Another Not-So-Bad GF List

Gay Gaming Survey Results Released

Nuns get hooked on game therapy

Character Related

Sexism is sexy: Women leads in video games [digg]
Sexism is sexy: Women leads in video games

From a very frustrated female gamer
From a very frustrated female gamer [digg]

Gender Roles

So what?
Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now

Costume/Design Related

Bullet Witch time…or not?

Game Specific

Bullet Witch DLC Hitting Next Week
Bullet Witch DLC Hitting Next Week [digg]
Fairy Godmother Tycoon: get your magic wand ready
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey to continue in epsodic format

Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 Wallpapers
Latest Dead or Alive: Xtreme 2 Wallpapers [digg]
Dead or Alive Wii-bound?
Bouncing Boobs on Wii? [digg]
No boobs in next Itagaki game?
No boobs in next Itagaki game? [digg]

Poking around with Virtually Jenna Jameson

Gaming in Academia

RR7: It’s a Queer World
RR7: Sexual Orientation in The Sims
Fair Play: Gender

Sex and Sexuality

To 20 Gayest Video Game Characters [digg]

Second Life new low: online sex changes (scary NSFW pictures included) [digg]
Second Life Reaches New Low: Sex Changes [nws]

‘Gaymer’ Survey Results Are In! [digg]

Sony’s ‘Home’ sex haven in disguise (perhaps?)

Pornage or pwnage, dis or dat

Playing Dirty: Night Elves on their knees

Take Two posts loss, settles lawsuit

Miscellaneous

Robotic Xbox 360 girl fulfills our fanart fantasies

Celebrity Related

GDC 2007: Night at White Wolf
Actress On Blue Dragon Localization

Character Related

Game Debate to the Death! Alyx VS Jade
Game Debate to the Death!
Joanna Dark VS Jill Valentine

Game Design

Blog Against Sexism Day
Fake Game Friday: Tuition
Kuju Brighton Becomes Zoë Mode

Game Specific

Women in Troll Culture
Housewife Superstar
Breaking News!
Silent Hill Movie Sequel Confirmed?
The Longest Journey Continues Online
Resident Evil: Extinction Trailer Creeps Up On Us
Finally, Ms. Pac-Man Comes To iPod
Tekken 5 and Nancy Drew hit the PS3 [tangential]

Where, oh Where, Are the Good Clothes in Oblivion?
Obliviate!
Computer rpgs Oblivion

Designer Hopes for Love in Games
Designer Hopes for Love in Games [WomenGamers]

Gaming in Academia

Race and Player Characters

Gender Roles

Out of sheer morbid curiosity, I bring you this poll.
Marriage Is Like A Game Boy…

Real Life Impact

A Feminist Gamer’s Manifesto
Hi! I’m at GDC right now…
Happy Friday everyone!
Make a date with your Xbox 360

Real Live Gamers

Jinx, Psyche, and Rhoulette look back on the top games for 2006 [mp3]
Ok ladies (and few gents!), this has been bothering for quite some time.
At the risk of sounding like a begger…
Guilds and TBC

GDC parties FTW
Women in Gaming Party

How to Get Your Girlfriend to Play Video Games
You can do it!
Another Not-So-Bad GF List

Sex and Sexuality

Bah… wish FFXI would finish download already!!!
Man goes flacid during drunk Tetris sex
Her Name? PSP-tan
The Heavenly Sword facial
Zelda through the eyes of an Otaku

Real Life Impact

IGDA WIGD sessions at GDC
6th Annual Women in Gaming Night, hosted by Microsoft

Getting Girls to Play: The Broadening of the Videogame Market

EA Targets Women With New Venture
EA Targets Women With New Venture [WomenGamers.com]

Susan O’Connor on Game Writing
GDC: Nickelodeon’s Schrier Relives the Revolution
Bonnie’s Coverage of GDC
GDC: Casual Games notes pt I
GDC: Casual Games all-dayer

Mind Games II: 3D Games & Depression

Cover Girls: Game Covers Women Want To See
Meme: Video Game Covers I Want to See
Meme: Game Covers that Sold Me

Real Live Gamers

Australian Gaming Community Driven By Women, Seniors

You, Too, Can Be a Fanboy [WomenGamers.com]
You, Too, Can Be a Fanboy

Female Gaming Kickin’ on Campus [WomenGamers.com]
Female gaming kickin’ on campus

Gender Roles

King and Queen of Konami’s Prom [pictures]

Character Related

The top ten girls of PSP
Greatest female characters–more like most eligible

The Manliest Men of Final Fantasy

Game Specific

The iDOLM@STER: Massively Multiplayer J-Pop Teen Idol Career Building Sim

Join Second Life, Save Marriage
The realities of (some parts) of Second Life

Gamer’s Closet #8: Barbie (NES)
Gamer’s Closet: Call For Entries

For Now, Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Final Fantasy XIII: Fabula Nova Crystalis

Funcom Announces Dreamfall Chapters

GripShift offers free Valentine’s level

Wedbush: ‘Cooking Mama Is Stirring Our Optimism’ In Majesco
Cooking Mama: Cook Off gameplay

Bullet Witch goes gold (plus screenshots)

Nancy Drew Pokes Around on the DS

So like this is pretty much the best game ever [nws pics]

Celebrity Related

Hayden Panetierre Loves Splitfish

Uwe Boll: ROBBED!

Sex and Sexuality

Girls Gone Wild heads over to PSP

Hot Coffee Finally Cooling Off?
Take-Two agrees to settlement talks in video game case
Germany’s Media: Addicted To Crack Or Just That Dumb?

Brenda Brathwaite On Sexuality, Homophobia, Serious Games

Christian Group Prepares To Mark Wii as ‘Porn Portal’
Christian Group Readies Anti-Wii Campaign

“Night Elves on Their Knees”

Send a Nintendo Valentines Day Card!

Miscellaneous

Girls, watch out! Pink headphones don’t work

According to Bizarre PS3 Commercial, This Is Living…I Hope Not! [tangetial]

We have a new leader in the “World’s Worst Videogame Tattoo” contest [picture]

Legend of Zeppelda tee

Moxie’s felting

Feminist SF Carnival #11 Up at Women’s Work