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A veteran female gamer has her take on the sexism that she sees in MMO games..

Her opinion :

[quote]From my own experience, in the early days of MMOs – looking back at Ultima Online and EverQuest – there was a definite attitude that women simply didn't play games... Female players who identified their gender... [were] ignored. Women... [had] their skills and abilities in the game questioned...

Players began to slowly accept that there were women playing MMOs... Nonetheless, the attitude itself was still low and chauvinistic. I can recount at least half a dozen times while playing Dark Age of Camelot... [receiving] requests for pictures, breast size, age, if I was available for dating, and various sexual requests and connotations...

There's also been one constant: the harassing of female characters... whispers soliciting cybersex, of course, but also more innocent gestures such as the use of emotes to flirt at, kiss, poke, tickle, tease, grope, slap, and otherwise virtually sexually harass a female character.[/quote]

We are all equal when it comes to being gamers. Women just look better than you when doing it.

Legal in 39 states Bringit.com is here to allow you to wager on your on gaming skills. Due to it being based on skills rather than chance BringIt is claiming that this is not really gambling.

This news is huge!

[quote] Major League Gaming, the tournament league for professsional video game players, announced today it has cut a deal to use Electronic Arts‘ sports games in its major sponsored tournaments that are now drawing millions of viewers each month.

By hooking up with a huge game publisher like EA, MLG is broadening its audience and taking another step on the path toward proving that professional video game tournaments can be a money-generating spectator sport, even as some of its rivals have been driven out of business.

New York-based MLG will host the 2009 EA Sports Challenge series on the PlayStation 3 video game console, with sponsors including Best Buy and Sony. MLG has become the big professional video game players league in North America since it was founded in 2002. The company’s web site draws 9 million unique videos a month, and its video streams are watched by more than 600,000 people. The company also operates the GameBattles web site for amateur gamers.

There really isn't much I can say about this. I hope they didn't clean up the place at the end by rolling all the wedding decorations into a ball.

NPD Group is stating that 170 million Americans are gamers.

Gamer Deng Senshan was sent to an internet treatment camp by his father for $1024 to help with his additcion.

The problem was he was beaten to death in that camp at the young age of 16.

Another day and another lawsuit against Microsoft. This time a gamer wants $50K from Microsoft for his Xbox 360 scratching his games.