Women in Games
The week's Escapist is about Women in Games. Possibly most interesting is a dissection of gaming and gender from the view of evolutionary psychology"If we were to whisk a young hunter-gatherer male out of the remote past into the present, dress him up in whatever the current uniform of youth happens to be and plunk him down in front of a videogame
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Seriously, though, as a female gamer who loves first-person-shooters more than any other genre, I have to say that the author's "ideal" game for women,
"an interactive soap opera or bodice ripper," has no appeal for me whatsoever. It's an interesting idea, but I don't think it would fly. I have no patience for violence in other media, but when it comes to video games, I really do enjoy shooting people in the head.
On the other hand, you might say Katamari Damacy is the ultimate "gatherer" game. I wonder if it's as popular with women as it is with men?
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