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If you're a fan of Lara Croft we thought you might like these. GameTap have posted the final episode of the RE\Visioned Tomb Raider animated series. The episode 'A Complicated Woman' emphasizes Lara's... well ok, it emphasizes her breasts, but also her guile and sustainability, which is what we enjoyed about it.
Fans of the upcoming Mass Effect have a couple of news items of interest today. It seems the girl on girl action of Mass Effect is so upsetting, it's bannable. Apparently the game has been banned in Singapore (wehre homosexuality is illegal!! Strange).
Along with that rather depressing news, the 'lesbian' love scene from Mass Effect hit the net and some were disappointed it wasn't a little more full on. For us here at GirlGamers AU, we actually think it was very classy and tastefully done.
You can check out there video below....
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Warning: Apparently this falls under the MATURE CONTENT banner, so please be aware of that.
Oh no no no no no!!! You see, it's things like this that REALLY irk the girl gamer. The 'Imagine' series are aimed at the girl gaming market. What makes these games even more annoying is the fact Ubisoft claim to have researched this market and they're only making what is wanted. Which begs the question, wanted by who exactly?
Kristen Bell--best known for her teen detective skills in Veronica Mars and more recently her electrifying appearances in Heroes, is set to be not only the voice, but a character in Assassin's Creed.
The upcoming title 'NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams for Nintendo Wii will use the Wii Weather Channel in-game. This feature enables the game’s “My Dream” area, a customizable sand-box environment that allows gamers to capture, raise, and even combine the inhabitants (A-Life) from the world of Nightopia, to generate real-time weather effects specific to the territory players previously registered with on the Wii (so for those of us on the Gold Coast, it'll sunny most of the time, for those of you in the UK.. not so much lol).
Okay so Australia is a wonderful country.. Europe too, a great place to live.. so why we get stiffed consistently by publishers is a mystery, other than the fact we moan and bitch about it, then buy the products anyway.. case in point Rock Band.
Yes it's that time of the year again, when pimply boys and grown men alike can ogle virtual booty and get their rocks off. Of course we know men only read Playboy for the interesting and informative world views and articles that appear within. And of course anyone ogling.. we mean examining the fine detail of the virtual artwork, such as skin tone, light and shadow effects is sure to be impressed.
Since lesbians by definition are female, we thought this was of interest. A new site has just launched especially for 'Girls Who Like Girls Who Like Games', yes that's right lesbian gamers. With the amount of lesbians that are indeed gamers, we think this is a good thing, since the boyz have things all wrapped up with sites like GayGamer.
We wondered what you guys think about all of the slippage that seems to be plaguing the PS3. With so many titles slipping, some for a short while, others for a long while, is this just the beginning of the end for the ps3, or can it make the leap and get back some pride?
Buzz! is pretty much the king of quiz games. It features cool buzzer controllers and has loads of games out in the series, including kids versions, sports, movies and general knowledge. As 'party' games / quiz games go, Buzz! is a classic.
Heads up Aussie readership, this is for you specifically. The successful eGames Expo is returning to Melbourne and will showcase the latest in gaming and digital entertainment. The eGames and Entertainment Expo takes place at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre from 16 – 18 November this year. This is Australia's Largest Video Games and Digital Entertainment Expo, so if you're in Melbourne or able to get there, do so.
Everyone's favorite Dreamcast monkey is back. Samba De Amigo is coming to a platfom made for him and his maraca shaking--the Nintendo Wii. The news broke last week or so, but now we have the official press release from SEGA with fresh details, here we are letting you know.
More of a rumor at the moment than 'news' perse, but as we're big Animal Crossing fans here at GirlGamers we're going with the flow baby! Animal Crossing MMO, that's the rumor and not on PC obviously, but on your Wii. No 'official' word from Nintendo on this as yet, but let's think back to when they first announced this title and there was lots of chat about it being a massive online title to really show off the Wii's online capabilities.
It was no doubt the intention of developers Double Fine Projects to cause quite a stir as they placed the above banner on their 'projects' page at their website-and it's worked. Yes that is Raz, the goggle headed hero from Psychonauts.
Yes ladies and gentlemen, Mass Effect has gone gold (for those not familiar with that terminology, it means the game is finished and going to press - this term is used because it is a gold master copy that is sent to the CD plant for replication).
Heads up nuggets! After dropping off DRADIS for awhile, the Battlstar Galactica XBLA title has reappeared and will hit the service in just a few days (Oct 24 to be exact). Although essentially just a mad shoot-em-up based in the re-imagined Battlestar universe, this should be a hoot for fans of the show.
As female gamers the act of going into a game store can be a good, or bad experience. More often than not we've found it's the latter "is it a gift for your boyfriend?", no moron, it's a gift for myself, I like to frag! Anyway, we've come across a little Aussie gem, no we're not being paid, this is a selfless act of bigging up a game store with a difference.
Folklore seems to be one of those games that fit the category 'Released but Unheard', at least to a certain extent. This title snuck onto Australian store shelves today, without so much as a murmer or a poster hailing its arrival. Given you get the chance to play either a male or female character, we of course nabbed it from the PS3 section of our local Gametraders (which we love and perhaps will post about shortly).
Ok, so we're a few days late with this as 'news', but we're not putting it up for its news value, we're putting it up because were a female gamer site, we're all about the women gamers and / or women in the games industry. Needless to say Perrin Kaplan is one of the big fish, given her role as Vice President of Marketing & Corporate Affairs at Nintendo of America.Sadly though, that role will cease as of the end of this year, when Kaplan leaves Nintendo. What's the chance of another woman taking on the role? Worse still, what's the chance of another woman with Kaplan's finesse taking on the role--we'd guess zilch.
Perrin Kaplan always seemed so... honest, so nice and let's face it, supportive of the female gamer community. It's hard to say goodbye, but we wish Perrin all the luck with whatever project she's falls into post Nintendo.
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Long before a certain Mr Potter waggled his wand and shouted "Expecto Patronum" there was a young wizard named Simon, who appeared in the simon the Sorcerer adventure games. The game was first released in 1993 (DOS & Amiga) and fell into the point and click category. What set Simon the Sorcerer apart was the fact it was fairly comedic and included parodies and various popular culture referencing.
Remember 'Space Channel 5' on the Sega Dreamcast, what a superb game. There were mad characters, camp dancing and weird aliens. Don't get excited, we don't have an exclusive that it's definitely coming to the Nintendo Wii, but since Thumb Bandits podcast host Gadget Girl has been right about both Samba De Amigo and Sega Bass Fishing heading to the Nintendo Wii, we're thinking maybe she was right about Space Channel 5 as well.
According to notes from the Nintendo Conference a few days ago "For each household, the DS has 3.0 users, the Wii has 3.5 users. DS has a 53% female user base. Wii has a 51% female user base." Yes ladies, we're playing it big, at least on Nintendo, which poses a slight problem really, it harkens back to the yawny view that those are the only sorts of games we play--Nintendo, pretty, bright, cute and 'fun'.
We've all longed for Puzzle Quest to come to XBLA. It was just so much fun on the PSP and DS, which many of us already own. So it appears yesterday at around 80MB, a small file, other than the price! Puzzle Quest for XBLA has the rather whopping price tag of 1200points! That's around $20AUD, €16EUR and $17USD for a file of 80meg. Now we know it isn't all about the file size, this is a great game, but we were expecting it to be 800 or 900.
The Simpsons Game--a title we ladies thought looked pretty cool, then we played the demo on XBL yesterday and we sort of changed our minds. This made us wonder just how often a demo can actually damage the sales of a game? Another title this happened with recently was TimeShift (also on the Xbox 360), we were looking forward to this title, then we played the rather lacklustre demo. Back to The Simpsons Game for a moment though--it looks fantastic, it really is just like playing the cartoon, but the demo didn't bode well for actual playability, it was all a little annoying and repetitive. Sure we'll probably still get it and we look forward to a Thumb Bandits review of the title, it's just a shame the demo, which is meant to make you want the game even more actually had the opposite effect.
Every now and again a game comes out at really the wrong time and we think maybe Stranglehold is one such game. It managed to keep us engrossed enough to play it all the way through in a few days. Some great graphical touches, nice voice work and beautiful environments. Still no one on the Aus girl gamer teams friends lists are playing this title, they're all on Halo 3 (everyone yawn together lol).
Ok so this isn't a gaming post, there's little doubt that if the new imagining of the Bionic Woman (note they've dropped the 'The') is a smash hit, Jaime will be running around on the Xbox 360, PS3 and other formats sooner than we could do the 'bionic sound' we'd all make as kids.. or maybe that was just us. Anyway why are we posting this? Well, Bionic Woman starts tonight on Australian screens. As gaming geek girls, we're obviously going to be looking forward to it, more so given 'Starbuck' Katee Sackhoff of the also re-imagined Battlestar Galactica is also in the show. We'll let y'all know what we thought tomorrow!
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