In the January 2009 issue of Delta’s Sky magazine - you know, that thing you end up reading because it’s in the seat pocket in front of you because you’ve seen everything in the SkyMall Catalog already – there is an article that attempts to educate the the uncomfortable masses about female gamers who are becoming game developers.

The article, titled “Crossing the (Gender) Divide” [sic], focuses on formerly frustrated gamer Vanessa Paugh who decided to create her own Quake levels. She found several of the game’s levels so gorgeous that she wanted to…

As an active member of several women gamer sites, I know there are a lot of women who game online and offline both with computers and consoles. So where does Kate Muir of Times Online get the idea that console gamers are boys and that my console is merely a toy?

This has been the topic of the week in the forums of some women gaming sites and I couldn’t agree with them more as they question where the heck Muir got her information or if she even games or knows what she’s talking about. In her article, Muir writes “Xboxes were toys for very big boys indeed,” and that men (at least in the UK) are “infantalised by night in a virtual world,” clinching her stereotypical views with…

ScienceDaily reports that men are more liable to get rewarding feelings from videogames than women, according to an imaging study conducted by the Stanford University School of Medicine. This supposedly may help explain why males are more likely to become hooked on videogames than females.

Analysis of the data showed significant activity in the mesocorticolimbic centers (associated with reward and addiction) of all the subjects’ brains. But the men’s mesocorticolimbic centers were more…