Sexy Videogameland

you get the feel in the first few paragraphs that the article is ridiculous. But still, people are going to look at this literally. It is an insult to gamers, not just genders. But i don understand that business is business and a good chunk of the audience is predictable. It is going to be up to the male gaming population to say we will not let sex convince us of anything

I'm so glad you called them out on this. I was just frustrated and let down by this. It's totally a step backward and I did find her tone condescending, as if we need to be told how to approach girls. I think part of the problem is that many people will behave in ways that are stereotypically expected of them, and this article is telling young gamers that they should be socially inept, unhygienic and dimwitted.

Geeked at birth, heh heh. Or at least at an early age. Remember what game you're playing? Is that a Saitek joystick...

I was playing a Sesame Street guess-the-picture game. Pixels would appear on the screen and slowly assemble themselves into a portrait of the character, and you had to type in who it was before the image had finished resolving itself.

Oh, I fixed the title. As for your soundbyte, I'm more interested in how people reacted than in what you said.

;_; it's sure been a long time. revoke my card!

If I stick my fingers in my ears and pretend to ignore numbers, I can still see the screen. Tis a good metaphor for me, who likes to fruitlessly ignore stuff like this as if it's irrelevant. =(

I certainly don't love that a studio like Pandemic got the axe completely, but I do love the belt-tightening the NPDs always tend to pull, inspire, and ... See Moresuggest. The PS3 starting to pick up steam? The Wii finally slowing down? It's like watching a spanking for the industry as a whole.

I wonder how large of a group people like me assume. That is, gamers who refuse to buy ANYTHING as long as they can sit around smugly enjoying decade-old titles so much more. The only thing I'm gonna be remotely sad to miss this year is AC2. That 'Hollywood-ization' is one of the main reasons I've shifting my direction entirely next year (a direction you grazed in that same sentence).

the "entertainment for its own sake" thing is the kind of argument I turn to when people ask me why I'm not play MW2.

thank you for your long comments, elliot! the article is just a small portion of the battle -- i owe so much to the thought-provoking commenters who contribute their ideas!

no way, i totally want the red coat.

Nice article (as always) and seriously, now i'm on trip from that image :D
Gonna try to put it as a desktop background, and see if I survive :D

Get well soon.