Ok, your pride will be pricked and you definitely won’t own up to it, but many of you gamer guys are out to find that “unicorn” myth of the girl gamer. While you’re out there shooting your enemies in the head, or getting drunk on ale in Ironforge in World of Warcraft, don’t deny your avatar is constantly sticking its nose up and sniffing the skirts of female characters in the hopes that they might turn out to be, *gasp*, a living female gamer.
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Long ago I was driven from random matchmaking rooms, forums, and games that allowed people I have never interacted with before the opportunity to open their mouths. Was it because I was getting my ass kicked? Hell no. Was it because I wasn’t getting enough competition? Uh, sometimes. Was it because they were playing random stupid games they made up? Occasionally. Really though, the reason I quickly switched to a new game or would simply only play when I had enough friends on to play with in custom...

Well I'm sure a lot of you know but we got two PMS teams flying out to Paris for the ESWC Masters of Paris tournament.

ESWC is a larrrrrrrge World Cup for PC games that goes through a bunch of qualifiers before the grand finals and it is one of the largest events in PC gaming. The titles this year are Counter Strike 1.6, Quake 3, Trackmania Nations, Warcraft 3 and Warcraft 3: DotA

The lovely Finnish girls of our Europe CS 1.6 team got selected to compete in the Female...

Girls and Video Games: Do Avatars Represent Gamers?
Part 2


As stated earlier, companies have begun to market quasi-egalitarian games such as The Sims™, World of Warcraft™, and a number of console games that feature non-gendered creature avatars. However, developers have yet to even the playing field regarding competitive game play; in fact, games have been designed for boys since their debut over forty years ago. Because of this, male players have an advantage that...

**note** This is an essay I wrote last fall semester for Gender & Pop Culture. I really enjoyed the project, and as one of my sources, I did a quick interview with our Fearless Leader, Athena Twin, about PMS Clan! That same day, I went home, made a forum account, and the rest is history.


Girls and Video Games: Do Avatars Represent Gamers?
Part 1

Video games have long been considered manly territory. When they began to take shape...