PUBLISHED: March 18, 2010
Sadly, this year's Women in Games Conference has been cancelled due to low delegate numbers. All currently registered attendees will be refunded in full as soon as possible.
PUBLISHED: March 17, 2010
Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.
PUBLISHED: March 15, 2010
As part of the promotion for their upcoming title, True Crime, Activision threw a party transforming an area of the W Hotel into a seedy club from the game during the Game Developers Conference.
PUBLISHED: March 14, 2010
Game designer Brenda Brathwaite has turned her attention from video games to some rather controversial board games meant to stir up complicated emotions. Her latest creation is a game called Trains which surprises players by revealing that "winning" entails sending people to concentration camps.
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2010
Market analyst Wanda Meloni talks about the significant impact that girls and women are having on the growth and shift in the gaming industry.
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2010
A 3 year old girl fatally shot herself after confusing a gun for a Wii controller. Her father had accidentally left it out on the coffee table after investigating a possible prowler the night before.
PUBLISHED: March 9, 2010
A 3 month old baby girl died while her parents were too busy playing games to notice. The parents had both lost their jobs and had fallen into a depression. While trying to escape from their real life problems, they completely forgot their responsibilities to their own daughter and she tragically starved to death.
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2010
WomenGamers.Com co-founder Phaedra Boinodiris (aka "Circe") will be doing a TED talk on Saturday. You can catch it live as it will be streamed via the Internet at the Triangle NC TEDx website.
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2010
Two game studio heads fired by Activision this week are suing the video game publisher, saying it let them go to avoid paying hefty royalties from the popular "Call of Duty." Activision denies any wrongdoing.
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2010
Japanese electronics giant Sony has been busy developing new handheld devices in an effort to better compete in the mobile market. Under way is a suite of new devices, including a PlayStation game-playing phone.
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2010
WomenGamers.Com has finally decided to jump on the Facebook bandwagon where we will be posting updates of particularly interesting tidbits about women and gaming. Become a fan today. Facebook updates will also be auto-posted to Twitter if you prefer to follow us there.
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PUBLISHED: March 3, 2010
Stone Creek Entertainment, a new publisher of video games focused on women and teen girls, was announced today. The company's first two iPhone/iPod Touch titles published under the 'Karizmac' brand will be announced and released this month.
PUBLISHED: March 3, 2010
To explain International Day Against Sexual Exploitation, www.CyberDodo.org (an interactive multimedia platform and family-oriented educational site) is launching an international video game tournament on March 4, 2010.
PUBLISHED: March 3, 2010
Recently, Mattel held an online vote to determine what the next Barbie would be. Computer engineer Barbie ended up winning by a landslide, however many people were left a bit miffed by the super girly style they gave her-- complaining that most female computer engineers looked nothing like her. One woman stands up to defend Mattel's decision, insisting that they are breaking rather than making stereotypes with this move.
PUBLISHED: March 2, 2010
We're downloading more games, playing them online longer, and spending slightly more time per week on average with the Xbox 360 online than either our PCs or PS3s according to a new NPD Group study.
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