women and games (Score 2)

Well, here goes, my first ever post to Slashdot and it just happens to be on a topic that I spend a lot of time wrestling with. You see I work for a website that reviews games and I am the only woman in the company, so I feel that I have a unique perspective in the company.

We review everything, windows, linux, mac, console games, so I never know what sort of a title will cross my desk. I have been introduced to some very interesting games so far and I have found most of them to be a lot of fun, including car racing, boxing, first person shooters, puzzle games, adventure games, you name it, I've tried it and enjoyed it.

I think the best thing to do is for the marketers to stop saying, well there's the gaming industry and over there is the female gaming industry. They are one and the same thing. I find women generally like all the same sorts of games as men, just sometimes in different proportions. There may be less Quake players, for example, that are women, but they are there.

Personally, my favorite games right now are Half Life: Counterstrike and Railroad Tycoon II. I started gaming on a diet of Amiga adventure games, Doom eventually, and all sorts of others.

Cheers everyone!