Women and Gaming

When it comes to video games it’s known as a guy thing right?

Well not exactly. A lot of women are into games just as much as guys are. Some women are so good the guys that they beat actually are surprised or even mad, because they just got wooped by a girl, (news flash girls are good at video games). Just the other day I was talking to a friend of mine about what games he plays and then when I brought up the fact that I play them too. He was shocked (it was pretty funny). He asked to me: “You play video games?” I told him that a lot of girls do and that I’m probably better than him for all he knows. I love video games, but I just don’t play them as much as a regular fiend would lol.

On the other hand when it comes to genres, the people who realize that girls do play games they think that they only play a specific genre that fits the stereo type of “sugar, spice, and everything nice” (in other words the girly girl). The typical girl games for example BRATZ, Barbie, etc. I don’t really know and I’m a girl. A lot of girls like to play shooter or sports games like: Gears of War, Grand Theft Auto, or Madden ’09. Girls can play all genres and they do

Remember those days when you saw tree houses or your brother’s fort would have “no girls allowed” signs on them? Today guys are still like that with a lot of things, especially when it comes to games. Me personally I have a lot of boys in my family and for a while they were like “oh the girls can’t play; she can’t play this with us she’s a girl.” Now women have all girl gaming groups and clubs. They play every genre of game and they play live and sometimes they just play each other. These groups are known as female gaming communities.

If you really think about it the games that are made for you to play, the games that you love, your favorite games, who makes these games? Do women create games too? The answer is yes they do and probably some of the games you think a women would never play a woman created.