The gaming scene is changing.

yeah now hopefully with women making games etc. there won´t be any more of those sick demented games like BMXXX <img src=´http://www.cliphoto.com/earth/e-037.gif ´><img src=´http://www.cliphoto.com/earth/e-031.gif ´> this is my world; it goes round and round and round The wolfy types like a cow <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Yep, and I bet they all look like the seductive redhead in the photo.

yeahm i wanna see girl holding gun. ehemm... i mean playing CS.

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade>there won´t be any more of those sick demented games like BMXXX <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> Alas, that may be wishful thinking - seeing the success of the pornography industry shows that some things will never change. Women or no women, the market will still be there, at least the PC is above that sort of thing. I´m not evil, just morally challenged

i don´t doubt the figures, but i bet most of em only play the Sims and Everquest, in the main (sorry malystryx but you´re one of us <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>) my daughter plays online, Everquest (wouldn´t you know it?) and Diablo 2. My wife plays the Sims (badly) and they both play Zoo Tycoon and argue about the best way to rear various animals. In fact my daughter is out today with the wife´s brother, playing some LAN rpg. Probably being an elf* or something else girly, and if you spot her online she uses the nickname Lothlorien (pathetic but at least its not Galadriel which was grossly overused even before LOTR films.) * the one time she played with me I magicked her into a pig and wouldn´t un-enchant her until she´d made me a bacon sandwich (irony) a cup of tea and been to the shop to get me a paper. Unf. she had a lvl37 character and she didn´t want to have to start over. Later on she and the boy and her uncle ganged up on me to paste me mobhanded but my assassin skills at lvl49 were just too much even for Phil´s hardened paladin and i toasted them all with firetraps and shadow warriors. You should have heard the squeaking and temper tantrums! <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> She´s on about SWG now, so you see i do think the MMORPG does appeal to a lot of girls, it´s the interactivity and chatting, typical female behaviour really. That´s why my wife loves the Sims so much, she says it´s like a soap opera or a reality tv show you can control, especially when it comes to relationships and stuff. I keep wanting to turn it into GTA3.. btw, Everquest? wtf is the point of this pile of horsedung? I´d rather watch paint dry.

there´s loads of girls in SWG <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

I know this little animation isn´t exactly the most insightful look at women in gaming, but it´s a good description of most of the responses from some men. <A href=´http://www.angelfire.com/theforce/recusant/attnwhr2.gif´ Target=_Blank>click here</a> Note: 309kb, and some may be a little offended by the language

excellent Rec, very very funny and very true.

haven´t i seen that somewhere before?? <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> any my sister is totally into this game called ragnarok. i was in it for some time, but the appeal totally got wiped out when it took 5minutes to move 10pixels. [lag i stopped playing and dubbed it ´lagnarok´. mysister stil playing. and taw, you seem to have a very interesting family there.. <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

lol when i play halo people always come on my server and ask, &quot;are there any girls here?&quot; what the hell!? what so special about them playing halo? who really cares? oh yeah, they do! i dont see any difference whether is a girl or not! how immature of them <img src=´http://www.cliphoto.com/earth/e-037.gif ´><img src=´http://www.cliphoto.com/earth/e-031.gif ´> this is my world; it goes round and round and round The wolfy types like a cow <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

well thank you kimk, myself I think &quot;dysfunctional&quot; is more appropriate. sadly, despite my family´s vastly increased use of computers, familiarity with even basic functions has hardly improved. I still regular cries for help with &quot;how do i send an email?&quot; how do I find a picture?&quot; how do i leave feedback on ebay?&quot; etc etc. Fortunately me little lad (9) can do most straightforward stuff nay problem. The daughter had her friends over the other weekend to stay, and while I was out they couldn´t connect the Xbox up to her TV as a dvd player, so me boy was roped in to do it. 8 15yr old girls relying on a 9yr old boy to do something so simple. the irony was, it was his Xbox that they´d just gone in and nicked, then dragged him out of bed to set it up for them. Poor little mite, he´s learning the ways of the world very fast now. Women demand stuff and men do it. His sister even nicked his pocket money because her need at the time was greater than his (i made her pay it back later though)

Not long ago, I read that CNN had stated that more than 50% of gamers on AOL were women. I don´t believe it personally. Still, it´s on the internet, so it must be true! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

but that´s AOL, and women are big AOLers, cos they see the disks when they go shopping, know from the ads that theres no porn, and its an easy interface for a chick to use, all pretty colours. I did a laptop for some woman not long ago and she insisted on AOL as her ISP for all the above reasons. Me Mrs is much the same, it´s a chick thing. Edited by - Tawakalna on 2/24/2004 12:14:28 PM

Women! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Still, I guess that most games (especially FPSs), are geared towards men. Maybe it is because they have more violent tendancies (there´s an opening Taw) <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>.

as i always say half the gamers that claim to be female are 52 stone bearded truckers from the midwest called nigel

Origin Systems has just been closed by EA. Sad isn´t it?

tragic. but it´s been on the cards for a long time. farewell Origin, you gave us years of pleasure and excitement!

There is an epitaph over at the <A href=´http://www.wcnews.com/´ Target=_Blank>CIC</a>. It´s not much of one but hey, they´re probably upset.

the one good thing about is that Chris Reid won´t be making anymore pointless and stupidly optimistic suggestions about the coming year being a good year for Wing Commander, like he´s been doing every year. Maybe he might shut up now and stop being so self-righteous and omniscient. (we go back a long way)