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23 August

Posted in Old posts by Guest Blogger on Sunday, August 24th, 2008 Comments Off
Archived by merrua

Computer Games
Ashley’s really not that bad
At this rate, there won’t be any games left for me to play
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
I may have to stop buying PC games
Crecente fights the boy’s club of gaming… ORLY?
Who’s the butt of the joke?
For male gamers and readers, something embarrassing
Here’s a noosey-noose to go with your Klan robe
Japanese women are the biggest users of Wii and DS… ORLY?
Debunking rumours: Chinese MMO’s anti-genderbending policy
Well, that was an expensive mistake [My Voodoo, Part 4]

Gender roles
White gaming knight
What Men Can Do Wednesday: Avoid Being the Hero

Video games industry
Market to Me: Marketing Consoles
Melissa Batten’s death
The power of indifference

Rpg Cons
Something good from something bad

Feminism
Feminists are fine with being bigots if it’s just ableism
More on harassment on the internet
Give that man a cookie, er, Klondike!”

Comics
Stephanie gets her due

Videos
Male gaze, what male gaze?

Gaming
Interviewed one of the co-founders of LesbianGamers.com
Guitar-ing and Racing
Positives of Women-Oriented Gaming Communities
Ex-ArenaNet Employee Claims that ANet Works with Gold Farmers
Oh…Oh They’re Good
Link roundup: more on film industry’s reluctance to promote female characters
(Wo)Man’s Best Friend: Fable 2
Cover Girls: Game Covers Women Want To See
One Man’s Idol Is Another Man’s Eye Candy
Mark Jacobs to EA: “BTW Your Tea Is Floating In The Harbor, Bitches”
No Comment: Gears of War more Girlfriend-Friendly????

Characters
I’m Not There: How to Write a Good Female Character We Rarely See
The myth of the woman who craves abuse
Why film schools teach screenwriters not to pass the Bechdel test

MORPGS
Vexation with guildwars

Comics and Movies
Hawkgirl with spoilers
Hellboy with spoilers
Wall-E: The Gender-fication of Robots
Why discriminate if it doesn’t profit?

TRPGs
Spoiler Alert: Top 11 D&D 4th Edition Revelations

Humor/OMG
Fly-by: Feminist Humor Kudos, plus a little narcissism
OMFG
It’s all in the fine print.

October 16

Posted in Old posts by Guest Blogger on Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 Comments Off
Archived by 100littledolls

Real Life Impact

Japanese women are the biggest users of Wii and DS… ORLY?

UTD study reminds industry it’s ignoring a key market

Videogames help women develop spatial skills

Gaming Communities

Even when girls like games, they don’t… what?

Cerise Takes on Zombies and the Final Girl
Interview with Cerise magazine

Real Live Gamers

Halo 3 at Home
Friday Open Thread: parenting and videogames

Game Design

Congrats, tekanji!

Webcomics

The Dancing Dandelions

Character Related

Oh, the Humanity!

To Be a Hero
The Quest for Humanity

Advertising

Kane and Lynch and Babes [nsfw]

Game Specific

Eternal Sonata First Impressions

Ubisoft: Sorry about the ‘Lesbo’

Live in Purity and then Die

Faith, Creation, Resurrection
The Journey to Paradise

Sex and Sexuality

Dancing with Dorks in “Redlight Center”
“Do Hentai Games Turn You On?”
Adventures in Hentai Games: “Brave Soul” and “Absolute Obedience”
Adventures in Hentai Games: “The Sagara Family” [nsfw]
Adventures in Hentai Games: “A Drug That Makes You Dream”

October 7

Posted in Old posts by Guest Blogger on Sunday, October 7th, 2007 Comments Off
Archived by 100littledolls

Real Live Gamers

spawn pride & joy

Yesterday I walked

Real Life Impact

gaming improves women’s spatial skills

Gaming Communities

New Blog: The Life and Times of a Video Game Design Student

Cerise: October 2007

New Counter Strike Source Girl Gamer Group

Game Design

I Am a Game School Dropout
Guilded Lily on GameCareerGuide.com
Lisa’s Story: A look into what might have been
Game School Dropout

Tekanji the video game design student
Getting into HAL
Where I started: Going from “yay games” to studying games
Game School Newbie

Advertising

Gamestop Begins Nationwide Ads for Gamers

Gender Roles

Debunking rumours: Chinese MMO’s anti-genderbending policy
No men allowed! Well… as women, that is

Game Specific

WoW Related
*sigh*
Druids 101
Mmmm, Tasty Fury
I was bored..
Double mountage!
Friday Fun or .. I’m a Clothes Whore
Those goggles…
Strategies for Oz
Just QQing about Brewfest and my Guild/Friends…
I found this on Youtube
wanna giggle?
Gotta love the geeks
Female Tauren SS Request
Gah! Goddamned boys!
The Savage Maidens are recruiting!
Epic Dolls Episode 6
In-game Voicechat
Need to Level
Haiku Friday?
Ninja fashion…
It’s the shorts! I hope…
BOYD Trolls Gone Wild
Epic Dolls Fashion Week Vid
Epic Dolls Episode 5
Cavalcade of idiocy
People sometimes say really stupid stuff.
Trying times with Void Reaver
Nice Pants.

X-posted from my personal journal

Web Comics

I saw this and thought it was pretty funny…

Arts and Crafts

i made one!

Introduction Threads

Hey :D
Hi I’m new
introductions first
Hello ladies!
Introduction
Hello!
Another intro
Yet another hello
Introduction & question about damage meters!
Intro Post

September 15

Posted in Old posts by Guest Blogger on Saturday, September 15th, 2007 Comments Off
Archived by 100littledolls

Conferences

WIGI’s “She Got Game” Conference

Conventions

Valerie Putman: Prose on Cons—Dragon*Con 2007

Convention Preview News: Play Container with the Co-Designer – or with Miss Canada?!

Real Live Gamers

Gaming With Toddlers: New Levels of Pwnage

Game Design

Interview with Naomi Clark, Gamelab
Women in Gaming: Naomi Clark, Gamelab

Character Related

Lulu: A Love-Hate Relationship
Get to know: Titania

On Female Leads

Gaming Communities

Awesome Tuesday’s
[Women and Raiding]

Love and Litigation
Latest Gaming Adventures

Positives of Women-Oriented Gaming Communities

Gender Roles

[The Feminine Gamer]

Webcomics

Grrr

Game Specific

Persona 3: First Impressions
Tracking down the queer content in Persona 3

Sims 2: Bon Voyage (a review)

[Girl Games = Stupid Games?]

Swing and a Miss, EA

Trailer Tuesday – My eyebrows can only go so high!

Gone Cardboard News: Two New Zombies!!! Items from Twilight Creations

Serving the Interests of Justice

Sex and Sexuality

Good Vibrations

Thats very very disturbing

Miscellaneous

I Read the Internets – 9/15/07

Sunday, July 8

Posted in Old posts by Guest Blogger on Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Comments Off
Archived by 100littledolls

Real Life Impact

Tech’s Gender Gap Widened by Uninviting Workplace

Real Live Gamers

Ask A Doll!

My sister enters the world of blogging

An Exciting Visit to a Video Game Retailer

Gaming Communities

Cerise July Issue & Call for Submissions
Cerise: July 2007 and Call for Submissions
Cerise: July 2007 and Call for Submissions [Killer Betties]
My review of the Wii is up in the new issue of Cerise
My Gaming Article was Published in Cerise Magazine

Something to think about

GamerchiX- A Women’s Online Gaming Community

Miss Video Game continues to fail

When Brainstyles Clash

Game Design

My gift to you: Jade Raymond talks about some game

Harassment

How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community

Advertising

Sexism and Animal Cruelty for God of War II
Why Do You Hate Me Sony?

Look hot, play games, get paid.

Game Specific

DS: Face Training
DS Camera & New Training Game

‘Doki Doki Majo Shinpan’ Footage
Witch-Touching Game Trailer: Doki Doki Majo Shinpan
Is this NSFw? Doki Doki Majo Shinpan footage

Two teams make one in ongoing quest for a Mother 3 translation

Sony doesn’t buy exclusivity, somehow thinks its system works

Boogie trailer brings with it the promise of more ways to look like an idiot

New Famitsu scans of Ivy’s bre–wait, sorry, Soul Calibur IV

Being a Boy

First Friday Drinking Game

Power, Wisdom and Courage

Male and Female Gamers Agree

New Contra 4 poster will melt your face off

Metroid Prime 3 Online Not a Reality
Sweet Samus! New Metroid Prime 3 Screenshots
God forbid: no online multiplayer for Prime 3, Brawl not playable at E3
Metroid Prime 3 delayed a week

Sexy No More Heros footage makes me feel special inside of myself

Hey ESRB! Check this out! New images of Nihilistic Software’s Conan

Sex and Sexuality

‘World of Warcraft’ Affair Ends in Jail
Wow pedophemale fails in her quest to get a 17 yeal old knobbing

Is Odin Sphere Really Vanilla?

‘Doing the Mario?’ Is that what we’re calling it these days?

Mario and Captain Nintendo Sex Education Video

Cosplay

Americans Shouldn’t Cosplay [Dreamy Gamer]
Americans Shouldn’t Cosplay. [Morbid Optimism]

Miscellaneous

Chobot is a Moron.

New Destructoid wallpapers are hotter than your best friend’s mom

June 24, 2007

Posted in Old posts by Guest Blogger on Sunday, June 24th, 2007 Comments Off
Archived by Lake Desire

Celebrity Related

Replace “scantily clad woman” with “game designer”…

Square-Enix announces Destiny’s Child game for mobile phones … wait, what?

Jessica Alba plays with the DS; Perfect reason to post pictures of Jessica Alba

Game Design

Gaming Today: 5 things that need to go in videogames

Game Specific

Soul Calibur IV – holy christ
Soul Calibur IV Early Costume Impressions UPDATE

Gender Roles in Odin Sphere

att Monroe’s Evolution

Ikki Tousen update
Japanese School Girl Costume DAMAGE

Meanwhile, Back in Oblivious

Capcom: battering women, making ‘em cry since 1992; new SF HD Remix art surfaces

Falling Stars, an RPG made just for me, I mean uh … young girls

Tomb Raider Anniversary confirmed for 360, DLC and retail flavors
Tomb Raider Anniversary Folley Trailer
Tomb Raider Anniversary Brings Lara Back In June

Konami to release groundbreaking DS game, Dream Skincare

Gaming Communities

Getting Your Game On with Girls
How To Get Your Game On: With Girls

The best worst game ever: Bikini Karate Babes 2

Gender Roles

“But sexism is normal in RPGs!”

Miscellaneous

I Read the Internets – 6/24/07

Art Attack Friday: Transfuse

Happy Father’s Day to all the gamer dads

A comprehensive list of video game characters I would have sex with</a.

Dead or Alive movie garners positive review; Zombie Norman Mailer weeps

Real Life Impact

Boys’ body image at risk too — Gaming magazines to blame?

Second Life used to look for missing girl

June 13

Posted in Old posts by Guest Blogger on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Archived by 100littledolls

Real Live Gamers

Gender Issues in Gaming
The Gaming Bitch on Gender and Games

Rob Pardo & Daughter

Frag Dolls on CNET Live
Ask a Doll! [Valkyrie]

Happy Mother’s Day!

Game Design

Design For The Game I’d Rather Be Playing

Real Life Impact

Women = Fresh Insights in Gaming
Women in the Industry
Computer Game Industry Looks To Women For Fresh Insights [Killer Betties]
Computer game industry looks to women for fresh insights [Computer World]

Gaming Communities

What Do We Do About Video Games?

Kohler Talks Wii and Gamer Types, CliffyB’s Bro QQs

Boys Only Club
Nihilum recruiting: females need not apply

Overhaul!
Yo.

game blogs

Male Gamer Sexism of the Day

Gender Roles

Sexy Guy Gamers

Brains are from Venus and Mars

Character Related

Characters Done Right: Goombella of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Characters Done Right: Midna, a feminist hero

Dudes in Distress: Guy Game Characters Need Help Too
Dudes In Distress

Mario: Game Over
Mario: The Post Mushroom Kingdom Years

Game Specific

Lara Croft Returns – Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Tomb Raider Anniversary Videos
Raiding Tombs with Lara

Venus Redemption: A Game for Female Gamers

Oh Noes, My Fun Bar Is Turning Red

women don’t want to be spaceships

Girls Pwning UW

Whaddya Mean There’s No She-Hulk?

New Barbie Girls Bridge Virtuality Gap via PC

Sex and Sexuality

Playboy hits Second Life
Hey If Lara Croft Can Do It…

SexChess: A Work in Progress

Bonnie Is On the Television!

Naked Men On Arcade Machines
Ivan and Luis [NSFW]

The Sexiest Saleswomen in the World
After the Buying, There’s the Selling
Cheesecake and Video Games

Miscellaneous

I Read the Internets – 6/9/07

Dollfies: Otaku Heaven?

Yummy Oreo Cookies…huh?

Shut that bitch up!
A picture of Oreo cookies…

ImagineFX-Issue 19 (June 2007)

Arts and Crafts

Female Gamer T-Shirt

June 6: Why yes, that is quite a lot of backlog

Posted in Old posts by Andrea Rubenstein on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 Comments Off

Advertising

PSP: no girls allowed?
I’m Going to Need This
Um…it’s the advertising?

Art and Crafts

Super Mario princess cross-stitch
Wonderful! Better Than Mama!

Links are Like Posts for the Lazy
Dragon Magazine Covers – The Editor Responds

Celebrity Related

Jane McGonigal

Character Related

Danger Gal: Lara Croft/Male Call: Terry Sheridan

Conferences

WisCon 31: Idealizing Fantasy Bodies
Idealizing Fantasy Bodies
Sexual Dimorphism in World of Warcraft
A short Gothick was trouble, a fat Gothick homicidal
Idealizing Fantasy Bodies: Whose ideal?
Fantasy Bodies
Sexual Dimorphism
Links : Justin Lee Collins and Paedophilia [in final paragraph]

Game Design

The problem with Drow
Thoughts on Romance
Women of the Century
Women in Historical Campaigns
Five minutes in any RPG

Feature: The 11 Worst Trends in Video Games (2007 Edition)
How To Fix The Video Game Industry

Game Specific

On the Metrod Prime 3 Release and Future Console Purchases
Time To Get Beautiful!

Fox brings ‘SIMS’ to bigscreen
Fox to Bring The Sims to the Big Screen [WomenGamers]

Gaming Communities

I need some group input
Portland Gamer girls?
Kotaku Commenters Prove the Necessity of a Women’s Gaming Magazine

Girl Power Hour – Girls Pwning Gyala Hatchery
Girl Power Hour – Girls Pwning The Black Curtain (HM)

There’s a New Sherif In Town, and She’s Got a Shotgun
The IRIS Network

Gaming in Academia

ATTN: Chicks who LARP

How To Play A Feminist (1 of 2)
How To Play A Feminist (2 of 2)

Gender Roles

Barbie Does “Second Life:” Virtual Fashion, Shopping, and Lots of Pink
Second Life fashion: armpit hair
Conflict
Do you RPG? [tangential]

Harassment

We Told You So

Real Life Impact

A Response to Virtual Rape in Games
Virtual Rape Is Traumatic, but Is It a Crime?

Real Live Gamers

I Reject the ‘Big Boys’
In game character changes

Ask A Doll… (Psyche)
Ask A Doll… (Calyber)

Sex and Sexuality

COLUMN: The Aberrant Gamer – ‘Princess Maker 2: Daddy’s Little Girl’
Prostitution in the ‘Verse
Bored & No One to Screw – Self-loving in London [NWS]

LoveChess: Nonsensical Sex Fighting
LoveChess: This Means War

Nudity Delays Halo 2 Vista
Halo 2 for Vista Delayed Over a Butt

Introduction Threads

Hi
Hellos everybody!

Miscellaneous

Fun Fun Fun at Sexy Videogameland
14th Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Fans

Dealing with some backlog [Cerise launch edition]

Posted in Old posts by Andrea Rubenstein on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 Comments Off

Art and Crafts

The winning Threadless BioShock tee

Conferences

Ludica @ Philosophy of Computer Games

Women In Games 2007: Opening keynote, Sharon Knight, EA
Women In Games 2007: Opening Keynote, Sharon Knight, EA [KillerBetties]

Women In Gaming International Event in Los Angeles was a success!
Women In Gaming International Event in Los Angeles Was A Success! [KillerBetties]

Game Design

It’s All About Teh Fun
Bards, Bombs, and Gaming

The Most Ridiculous Gender and Game Design Story Challenge
An Excellent Panel with a Serious Flaw

Making Video Games Desirable for Women
Making Video Games Desirable for Women (for Dummies)

Focus on Development Diversity [WomenGamers]
Focus on Development Diversity [KillerBetties]

Game Specific

Women in World of Warcraft
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Super Paper Mario and a Controversial Post

Gaming in Academia

Sexism in the gaming industry
Sexism In The Gaming Industry[Killer Betties]

Cerise Magazine
‘Cerise’ Magazine: By and For Women Gamers
Cerise, The Mag For Women Gamers

First issue of Cerise is out
Cerise Magazine Released Today
Check Out Cerise #1
Cerise: May 2007 and Call for Submissions
Cerise Magazine Launches
May 2007 issue of Cerise is out
Anti-oppression Links Round-up
Cerise Magazine
the 13th carnival is up
Cerise Magazine, May 2007
Links for the day: Wednesday, May 02 2007
SURPRISE ITS 1 AM [how did this happen]
Correction: SOE Did A Disgusting Thing To A Dead Goat
New webzine for feminist gamers
Webzines
Don’t mess with their LARP, or they’ll break (your) character.
Launch of Cerise

Gender Roles

DS Witch Touching Game #1 on Amazon Pre-Orders
How To Tell If You’re a Fanboy
Gay Marriage Flap Around New Lord of the Rings MMO
GTA V: Mommy Drive-By
How does a working mom find time to be an uber WoW geek, anyhow?

How to Get Your Girl into Gaming!
How To Get Your Girl Into Gaming! [KillerBetties]

Harassment

Gamers Against Violence Week ‘07
Gamers Against Violence Week ‘07 [KillerBetties]

Real Life Impact

Tweety Has Left The Building
WomenGamers.Com – National Computer Camp Scholarship for Girls
Speaking of action games…
Sony marketing continues to think it’s clever to be vile
The intersection of murder, videogames, and media

College Recruits Female Game Students [WomenGamers]
College Recruits Female Game Students [KillerBetties]

The Impact of Virtual Rape Online
Virtual Rape Is Traumatic, but Is It a Crime?
The Impact of Virtual Rape Online [WomenGamers]
The Impact of Virtual Rape Online [KillerBetties]
Virtual rape and real-world reactions

Real Live Gamers

On being the token “girl gamer”
Girls in like with girls?
Killer Women: Theresa Pudenz
Friday Open Thread: Whatcha playin’? That? Oh, I kick your ass.

Girl Power Hour
Girl Power Hour – Girls Pwning Gyala Hatchery
Girl Power Hour – Girls Pwnt Rotscale
Girl Power Hour – Girls Pwning The Black Curtain (HM)

Sex and Sexuality

Point Prostitution (and “Selling Sex”)
Squeeze Her Boobies To Go Pew!
Whoring For ‘World of Warcraft’ Gold?

Introduction Threads

Girls Who Play
Girls Who Play [KillerBetties]

Miscellaneous

I Read the Internets – 5/5/07
I Read the Internets – 4/28/07
13th Carnival of Feminist Science Fiction & Fantasy Fans
The 37th Carnival of Feminists

March 26: The IRIS Network Edition

Posted in Old posts by Guest Blogger on Monday, March 26th, 2007 Comments Off
Archived by 100littledolls

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