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Designed to appeal to the fairer sex—it's pink, you see—Nintendo will release the "Misty Pink" version of the Nintendo 3DS on October 20 in Japan, said president Satoru Iwata. More »
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Direct from the We Could Have Told You That department, a recent study determined that introducing young boys to video games has a direct effect on their academic performance. Introducing a major distraction interferes with learning? Who'd have thought? More »
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Young girls can live out their dance fantasies in their living room with Majesco's Dance Sensation! for the Nintendo Wii. Young boys will just have to keep hiding their passion for creative movement from a world that just wouldn't understand. More »
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Why spend your evening waiting in an queue to play Aion when you can watch an hourglass spin around in EA's new MMO, Littlest Pet Shop Online? More »
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This week's Famitsu has an interview with Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear Solid Touch producer Yasuyo Watanabe. The headline for the story is very careful to accentuate that Watanabe is female. How careful, you ask? More »
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Girls, girls, girls. No, it's not a Vegas review, it's the target audience for EA's Wii title Boogie SuperStar, which was announced yesterday. I swung by EA's New York press event yesterday, too, where the game was on display, and I took a look at it. More »
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"Gentlemen, may I introduce you to Phoenix Shadowalker", begins the press release from Glu Mobile, announcing it's new mobile game available later this month, Shadowalker, or Shadowwalker going by the press release heading. Mistaking us for gentlemen was your first mistake. Assuming that some sultry model in a leather jacket and a mini-skirt holding a sword was going to ruin our on-again, off-again romance with Lara Croft was the second. We are gamers, Glu Mobile, and we have hot women with swords falling all over us all the time. We can't walk down the street without a walking hottie arsenal falling in step behind us. It's just how we roll. We've come to terms. Besides, mobile gaming already has a Lara Croft. Her name is Lara Croft. May we introduce you? More »
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With all the press (mostly of the incredulous variety) swirling around Ubisoft's line of DS games for girls (featuring such scintillating titles as Imagine: Babyz and Imagine: Fashion Designer, as Ashcraft mentioned earlier this week), Ian Bogost is here to set the record straight and chastise us all for having short memories and no sense of history (ouch!): the series isn't new, and Babyz was first released in 1999. I think Bogost is being a little disingenuous here - is it any wonder that many of us have no recollection of minor software toys targeted towards adult women released in the mid-to-late 90s (and do interactive desktop pets really count as a 'game'?)? I'll concede that a more complete historiography makes for some more interesting observations: More »
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Finally a game for me! Disney Princesses: Enchanted Journey is a Wii, PS2 and PC game (with a version due out on the DS) that allows young girls (discrimination!) to create their own custom characters and help their favorite princesses help save their worlds while learning an important lesson about courage, friendship, trust and the joy of discovery. Swoon! While I do appreciate how good they've gotten at rendering Disney characters in video games these days, one fact remains...boys do not like playing dress up in video games. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=274200&view=rss&microfeed=true Okay, all you folks can shut up now, we're posting the Halo and Metroid fan movie, Haloid. More »
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I came across this little Princess Lea and R2-D2 figurine made by Gentle Giant and was like, "Why is Lara Croft with R2D2?" when I realized that this is the new look for cartoon Lea. So of course, a hunt down to find other babes in gameland ensued and I found QJ's Top 10 List of gaming vixens, which are as follows: More »
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Today sees the announcement of the 2006 Girl Gamer Award nominations, collected from various female gaming sites and forums across the interwebs, many of which hate our guts. These first annual awards are the product of a joint effort between Gamergirlsradio.com, Gameinatrix, and the KRT Ladies gaming clan. More »
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Now this here's a press release. UK online game rental company Gametart has randomly sampled 200 British women and decided to let the world know the ins and outs of their sexual appetites. To the point, they asked them how often they had sex, and if they regularly played video games.
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This is all we know, but Japanese film studio Shochiku is making an animated Love and Berry. A blurb from the studio's website: More »
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So today I thought I would give some of the readers a treat and post the Wii panty girl video, giving both the perverts and the curmudgeons something to comment on during a quiet Wednesday afternoon. Soon after I posted it, the video went private, the panties now replaced with a video of her playing the Wii in spandex. Why? I tracked her down via YouTube and Yahoo and asked. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=225843&view=rss&microfeed=true Yeah, tipster Maxwell is right when he says we've probably seen a great deal of people playing Wii videos since the system launched, but nothing quite like this girl. She starts off in a tennis dress, and then, well...loses the tennis dress. No real nudity involved mind you, but probably not all that safe for work anyway. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=225713&view=rss&microfeed=true What better way to kick off a Monday morning than a borderline NSFW video about rendered jubblies? X-Play, one of the tattered remnants of game-related programming on the former TV 4 Gamers network, presents you with the evolution of breast physics in video games. There's no real nudity, but folks at work might think you just a bit more creepy than they already do for watching this. More »
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If you found yourself drooling over the Swarovski crystal covered pink DS Lite designed by Paris Hilton we posted a few weeks back, then not only is their something wrong with you, but there is also a spark of hope, as one is now up for auction on eBay UK. I am assuming the seller simply had too much taste to keep the item for himself. More »
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Forget Lara Croft, Kasumi, and Vanessa Z. Schneider (rawr). They've got nothing on the girls of the NES, and Syd Lexia knows it. He's compiled a list of the 23 hottest 8-bit hotties, and rated them in three categories - hotness, inner beauty, and a special arbitrary category. I'd have to say Ariel from The Little Mermaid is my favorite. More »
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Hey, girls! You like pink things, right? Sure, me and Flynn may have rose-colred DS Lites, but we are men and only men by default. The pink stuff, I mean come on, is for girls. And because men and young boys are busy playing with their manly black and navy DS Lites, Sony thought it would be a good idea to target young Japanese women with Pepto pink PSPs. It even roped in bag designer Samantha Thavasa to do, we assume, absolutely nothing. The handheld hit Japan on November 22, and tonight (I write from the future), Sony held a big bash for the pink portable in Roppongi, complete with women. The shindig commemorates new online shopping site WWCITY. Because women not only like pink things, but buying pink things, right? There was also a fashion show with models and Miss Universe hopefuls. That though wasn't for the women, but for Sony dudes who fancy eyeballing the ladies. Brian Ashcraft More »
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Women. They're great for a lot of things, but they make it difficult when you want to play video games. You want to play Gears of War on the big TV? Tough. She wants to watch an episode of A Baby Story she's seen twice already. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=216546&view=rss&microfeed=true In this month's Men's Health Magazine, the "Ask The Girl Next Door" section looks at how to use the Wii to get your girlfriend into gaming. While we don't have the actual article to summarize the advice, I can probably extrapolate based upon my own experience getting my own non-gamer girlfriend trained in the complexities of handling an eight-inch, opalescent Wiimote. More »
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Behold Lilly —my cute, button-nosed and raven-haired cousin — hugging the ivory DS Lite I gave her for her birthday, along with a copy of Nintendogs and Animal Crossing. More »
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My third date with my wife? We went to Yodobashi Camera in Umeda, and she bought Space Channel Five 2 for herself. Then proceeded to play it for the next five hours. Same for the DS and the 360 to an extent. Games magically appear and are played into the ground. Without explanation. More »
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As you might well imagine from my loud sense of self-entitlement, I am an only child. However, I have two adorable twin cousins named Aunna and Lilly, who are about to turn 12, and who have rather been adopted as surrogate sisters by myself. I do all the sorts of things expected of big brothers, including regularly threatening to lock them in the basement for misbehaving, throwing them in the garbage can and beating the crap out of the pervy little pre-pubescent punk down the street who dared suggest they play 'doctor.' More »
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Last week, Eliza verbally body slammed Playboy's editor over their upcoming feature about hot, naked girls in gaming... girls no one had ever heard of. Playboy claimed that "if you feel these women are not prominent enough in their games, that's an issue for the developers who should be creating more strong roles for women." Eliza's response — in which she rattled off dozens of names of well-known female game characters who re-affirmed positive gender ideals — can only be described as a Mortal Kombat style fatality. Scott's offal-coated pelvis hangs above Eliza's mantle, connected to the spine she deftly ripped out of his back. More »
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Wired's Joel Johnson writes: More »
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I try to avoid "girls in games" articles but this is neat. According to a little study at University of Teesside, girls are apt to dig games with lots of fighting, thinking, and story. In other words, splodey games that aren't stupid. More »
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As the founding member of Kotaku's own branch of the He-Man Woman Hater's Club, I probably should not deign to cootie myself up touching the subject matter of the Top 10 Girliest Games of All Time. Best to put on my Haz-Mat suit, hand off the assignment to our token female staffer, then go watch some Pumping Iron to up the testosterone levels again. But Eliza's never around when you need her. More »
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Do boy gamers hate girl gamers? Yes. frankly, I'm sick of you baby factories mucking up my cathartic games of virtual butchery with your rainbows and puppy dogs. I wince every time my girlfriend wanders barefoot out of the kitchen to play a game of Animal Crossing on my Gamecube: Doesn't she know that the estrogen she's oozing all over the controller is having an acidic reaction to the Cheetos-dust patina I've laboriously worked up over the years? You girls want to game? I've got a game you can play. It's called "make me a sandwich." More »
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How To Get Your Girl Into Gaming, Florian Eckhardt Edition. Offer your girlfriend a clear choice: either she can spend a couple hours on the couch making little virtual men prance about in a brightly colored mushroom kingdom, or she can see you naked. This is a type of Pavlovian conditioning. If you're feeling vindictive, offer her the choice of either watching your corpulent strip tease or playing Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. — you will notice in her eyes the same look that people trapped in burning buildings get just before they hurl themselves out of the tenth story window. Rinse then repeat with the next girlfriend when your current one inevitably dumps you. More »
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If you aren't familiar with the Oneechanbara series (and really, at this point, who isn't?) it's a Japanese action game involving nearly naked girls slicing up zombies, who shower them with blood in the traditional Japanese fashion. Publisher D3 is upping the babe factor this summer with the third Oneechanbara game, Simple 2000 Vol. 101 The Oneechanpon. This one's really just a cash-in special edtiion update to part 2 and features more girls (some a little too young), more outfits (obligatory zombie thrashing maid get-up), and more blood splattering goodness (who cares about this part, we want smaller bikinis!). More »
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The Max Factory line of Capcom's famous fighter girls have shipped to Japanese retailers this week, with US importers expected to ship them next week. If you don't mind dropping about $60 American (each) on these lovely plastic ladies, NCSX still has pre-orders open for Chun Li, Cammy and Sakura "Girl-Fighting" figures. More »
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