Tuesday Tasting: Girls In Gaming
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 worlds 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.
Marriage 2.0: Marry Me You Pointy Eared Mouse Thing
So this dude Shinzo, was like, "Will you marry me?" on this internet forum proposing to this girl supposedly named Rooh. Rooh was totally like, "Hey wait we've never met before in real life and you're in England and like I'm in the United States...." True story... For real, this like totally happened.
Rooh is a cute little 21 year old American girl who stumbled upon a MMORPG called "Fly For Fun." This little MMO eventually lead her to a webforum, FW. There she met the funny perverted brittish that is Shinzo. Soon they began talking on MSN and little did they know, but their conversations grew into a wonderful friendship that quickly bloomed into love. But then, Shinzo did the unthinkable! He proposed on that same forum that they met on--two months before they hoped to meet.
Meanwhile, a bunch of losers on Digg, we're totally like, "No way, what a loser!"
You can't make this shit up.