women in games

Assassin’s Creed 4 lets you play as a female pirate, finally

Blackbeard’s Wrath (absolutely nothing to do with Montezuma’s revenge) is the multiplayer content for Assassin’s Creed 4 that’s out today, Dec. 10th. Among its cast of three heroic scalawags is The Orchid. Though her back story goes into Templars and the Qing dynasty and some stuff about how she bal

Are Romance sims the next Japanese gaming import?

A new article in Edge shows that, in Japan, there has been a rise in the amount of dating games played by women. What’s interesting about this to us isn’t just the demographic research that backs it up (some 49% of unmarried women in Japan do not have a domestic partner), but what it says for romanc

Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag questions role of women in videogames

We all agree that the days are numbered for the helpless, hyper-sexualized, damsels in distress in videogames. But will an outdated archetype simply be replaced by new ones?  At a talk given yesterday in Los Angeles, Jill Murray contended that a slew of more suitable roles for women characters were