http://gigblog.org All about women in the world of video games Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:57:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to mmogchart.com's list of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) with 200,000+ subscribers, the most popular titles are, in order: 1. World of Warcraft 2. Runescape 3. Lineage 4. Lineage II Two recent releases, Age of Conan and (very recently) Warhammer Online apparently have fewer than 70,000 and about 500,000 players respectively. http://gigblog.org/2008/09/27/the-state-of-women-in-the-mmorpg-genre/ This week, Tracey John interviews women in the gaming industry on the MTV Multiplayer blog. Already posted are interviews of Morgan Webb, co-host of G4TV's X-Play, and Jane Pinckard, who's famous for her blog Game Girl Advance. The interviews bring to light many issues that women face in the industry ... http://gigblog.org/2007/12/11/mtv-multiplayer-interviews-women-in-game-industry/ Game #2: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey In between the first person shooters and role-playing games, there is a serious shortage of adventure games these days.  Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is the first adventure game in years to break free of this stranglehold on the industry -- it goes without saying that ... http://gigblog.org/2007/11/28/good-games-for-girls-part-2/ Nintendo has most definitely done something right when their latest Mario adventure on the Wii turns out to be the highest rated game ever made.  I couldn't agree more with the reviewers. Super Mario Galaxy plants you onto a cosmic universe that is by far the most expanse ever featured in ... http://gigblog.org/2007/11/18/super-mario-galaxy-is-a-great-game/ The recent release of Assassin's Creed, a highly-anticipated game from Ubisoft this holiday season, was recently marred by the release of a modified pornographic image depicting Jade Raymond, the game's producer.  The image surfaced on the popular web site Something Awful's forums, though they claim that neither was it created ... http://gigblog.org/2007/11/18/the-case-of-jade-raymond/   GameTap, a subscription service where one can play an enormous amount of video games for a single subscription fee ($9.95 USD), recently announced a new program targeted directly at independent developers. Called the GameTap Indies program, it enables an independent developer's game to be featured and available on the GameTap service. ... http://gigblog.org/2007/09/07/get-your-game-on-gametap/ In an industry that has a significant base of female participants (as noted by an earlier story), it's surprising that there aren't more great games that are targeted towards women. It is important in our day and age to promote gender neutrality in video games in order to attract ... http://gigblog.org/2007/08/28/good-games-for-girls-part-1/ This may not come as a surprise to many. Joystiq reports today from Nintendo's E3 2007 Keynote address: Nintendo leads the pack with the highest ratio of female to male gamers: 33 in 67, where other organizations can only claim 20 in 80. More than 1 in 10 women play games regularly ... http://gigblog.org/2007/07/11/female-gamers-love-nintendo/ The International Game Developers Association, or IGDA for short, is a not-for-profit organization that brings individuals in the game development industry together to foster communication between developers. The IGDA also runs multiple special interest groups which focus on a particular issue currently in discussion within the industry -- of ... http://gigblog.org/2007/07/03/the-igda-and-you/ Microsoft Canada held a conference called EnergizeIT in Toronto yesterday that I had the pleasure of attending. The conference was to showcase some of Microsoft's new technologies to an enthusiast crowd. There were multiple streams that each attendee could participate in -- from security, to networking, and finally, ... http://gigblog.org/2007/06/17/this-could-be-an-issue/