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Tuesday Tasting: Girls In Gaming

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 2007 4:00 AM

Submitted by arielwaldman. Edited By erin_broadley.

TAGS: china, role playing, mmorpg, fantasy, heroines, breasts, girlfriend, halo 3, master chief, halo nights

Each week, Ariel Waldman serves a tasting of the latest in sex and tech.

China Company Bans Men-Role-Playing-Women

Aurora Technology, under Shanda Entertainment in China, has banned men from role playing women in their MMORPG, King of the World. Perhaps burned one too many times for mistakenly hitting on any heroine in sight, the company is requiring that anyone signing up for a female character must be gender-verified by webcam. We're not sure if this is gender "verification", or a clever excuse for pr0n, as there is no sight of a ban on women role playing men. Sources say that this fad should fade, as it takes away the entire point of fantasy games by taking away the ability to be someone else.

Feeling Up Fantasy Female Heroines

Always interested in the intersection between sex and video games, Leigh Alexander gives girl characters in games their annual breast examination this week. Analyzing areolas to lack of underwires, she defends the sometimes over-the-top depiction of females in games:

...the gratuitous endowments and high-cut battle skirts, every little plate of waist-cinching, virtually useless armor and every graphic jiggle is as necessary to the genre as the subtle moan of the shambling undead and the high-powered arsenal of the world�s best shooters. And to shamelessly enjoy and appreciate every bare-skinned brawler does not indicate unfairness or misogyny any more than an appreciation for wrench kills or car thievery indicates real-world sociopathy.

Previously, our lovely Posh Suicide provided her views on the double-D debate.

Halo 3 Is Hot For Your Girlfriend

As one of the few females in attendance of the Halo 3 pre-launch party at Microsoft last night, it's obvious that this game is open to receiving any hype it can. Goofy and definitely geeky, a few game-fans got together to make a music video dedicated to their addiction. Featuring horrible oh-so-90's boy band moves, Joystiq warns that "Halo Nights" won't be something you hit replay on. Regardless, we're curious about the mechanics of having sex with Spartan 117.

9 Comments

BiXbYGrendel

Saskatoon, SK

August 2005

SEP 25, 2007 05:41 AM

REAL RACKS IS REAL HOT!

And for any ladies wanting to shag Mr. 117.... I'm sure he'd be awesome. That's just the way he does things.

Lockeblade

Australia

May 2007

SEP 25, 2007 05:53 AM

Chainmail bikini+sword=hawt. You can't fuck with a formula that's worked for generations of gamers.

Having said that, gender tests are ridiculous. If you can't tell within 5 minutes that you're not talking to a woman rather than a horny little 13 year old you should /wrists and continue to fail at life. Besides, there's a little thing called Ventrilo that quickly sorts the problem out.

Who the fuck picks up in an MMORPG anyway? I'm too busy killing shit and farming for my epics and leave the flirting for my healthy social life.

yeojanamja

Singapore

July 2007

SEP 25, 2007 07:10 AM

If anything this is going to encourage Chinese men to dress up for the web cam and explore their feminine selves. And isn't that something to be encouraged, at least once in a lifetime?

MisterLinguist

Birmingham, AL

October 2005

SEP 25, 2007 07:57 AM

That video made me cringe. What the fuck? I didn't know that Master Chief was a douche.

Azadeth

Fairport, NY

August 2006

SEP 25, 2007 10:43 AM

This is China we're talking about here. This policy is probably the most fair and rational one they've imposed in years.

azathoth42

Dallas, TX

September 2004

SEP 25, 2007 06:35 PM

Someone in my gaming group made an off hand remark about how if a female character is wearing the chainmail bikini, they apply their Cha. score to their AC.

Colinism

Atlanta, GA

July 2005

SEP 25, 2007 07:51 PM

Watch till the end. Nuff said.

xPridex

HOPEFUL

Minooka, IL

SEP 26, 2007 08:28 AM

BiXbYGrendel said:
REAL RACKS IS REAL HOT!

And for any ladies wanting to shag Mr. 117.... I'm sure he'd be awesome. That's just the way he does things.

Agreed, on both statements.
XD

Tallboy66

USA

January 2005

SEP 26, 2007 08:39 AM

While role playing is different, I used to pick female fighters in an old Play Station game only because she could do things the male ones couldn't.

Is the gaming world now turning in to a pick up joint?

At a glance and out of context, it can be tough to distinguish fighting from sex, and they share several key features in common %u2013 adrenaline, physicality, the goal of individual satisfaction.

Sex is violent.