Kotaku 
Enter your username and password.
Denver, 2:25 AM
Fri Jan 1
33 posts in the last 24 hours
Tip us:
Editor-In-Chief:
Brian Crecente
| AIM | Twitter
Deputy Editor:
Stephen Totilo
| AIM | Twitter
Senior Editor:
Michael McWhertor
| AIM | Twitter
Senior Contributing Editor, Japan:
Brian Ashcraft
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, East Coast:
Michael Fahey
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Oceania:
Luke Plunkett
| AIM | Twitter
Contributing Editor, Weekends:
Owen Good
| AIM | Twitter
Correspondent, San Francisco:
AJ Glasser
| AIM | Twitter
Columnist:
Leigh Alexander
Columnist:
Tim Rogers
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
11/03/09
11/03/09
Ok, she's hot. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
Never change Kotaku readers. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
b) Males are slavering, sex-crazed animals.
Therefore,
c) Anything sex-related on a videogame-related website: in the wise words of Borat, "Great success!"
In other news, Mario is red, Sonic is blue, and in Soviet Russia, poem writes you! #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/03/09
no really, ...
...have you not HEARD of Batman: Arkham Asylum? The highest rated Batman game ever made?
This costume is from THAT game's redesign.
Ugh, you gave me a headache... #lisafoiles
11/03/09
Yeah, if I hadn't gotten that from the slew of comments that mention the B:AA connection, I would have gotten it from the slew of comments that mention the B:AA connection. I was speaking more in general terms than about this specific instance of the costume. Like how the LEGO Harley Quinn, in addition to only having one boob due to a mixup in the paint application process, was given two white gloves instead of her usual one red/one black arrangement. That's the only instance I know of where she's had two white gloves, and it doesn't look right. #lisafoiles
11/05/09
I do see your point, but hot jester chick becoming hot jester/dominatrix chick? I'm OK with that... #lisafoiles
11/02/09
Also, some people have been complaining about the "girl gamer" topic being brought up again. If people would take the time to follow the links you'd see that she only posted her blog after the piece on Kotaku was posted. Whether you agree with her opinion or not, you can't really fault her for writting about it when Kotaku did it first. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
props.
And to the people whining about her wanting attention, what the hell do you think Halloween is all about? I'm sure you don't dress up in a costume NOT to be noticed. WTF people?
11/02/09
11/02/09
So yes, I knew. Just like I know Batman was a comic before the show created by Bob Kane in 1939 for Detective Comics #27. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
That's because women who are confident in both their looks and mind are no good skanks. In it only for the attention, dressing up in a smutty outfit brings. Regardless of the taste, or creativity shown in their pursuit, they're attention grabbing WHORES! The only thing worse then a beautiful woman, is a beautiful woman not crushed by self doubt.
/Sarcasm
Seriously though, I agree with ya. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
It is true that plenty of girls play GH, or flash games, or have a DS, but that doesn't necessarily make them gamers.
Most of the women I know will jump in at a rhythm game party because they like karaoke, but, for instance, in my grad school, only one comes to class every other day in a BlizzCon, or Diablo III shirt.
If I had to ponder a "test" for girl gamers (first off, I'm not convinced it would differ in any way from a "gamer guy" test), it wouldn't necessarily be centered around esoteric gamer knowledge, but conduct, such as (non-exhaustively):
- Wearing gamer T-shirts and collecting gamer memorabilia.
- Going to game launches, conventions, LAN parties.
- Having a Handle, and having friends that ONLY know you by your Handle. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
I'm so glad someone decided to cosplay her. And well. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
Also, yeah, there's plenty of girl gamers around, they just tend to gravitate towards more social games like WoW, or like Black-Dog-Howls points out, they keep quiet in games like Modern Warfare to avoid unwanted attention. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
Hell, even on games like Everquest where most people are mature, my wife gets hit on when people realize she's not just a dude playing a female character.
I don't think the percentage of women playing games has gone up all that much, just that they're playing different types of games. My wife used to only dabble in MMOs like Everquest (like a large portion of women, I imagine) and only recently began fiddling with my console games.
I'm sure as the generations pass, more women will be playing more console games. It's down to the familiarity of the control scheme. Keyboard + mouse is easy to introduce at a later age than a controller with two movement sticks, a d-pad and 10 buttons.
But back on topic, awesome costume, and you wear it very well. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
I actually remember her from an episode of Malcolm in the Middle where she played the female version of Malcolm, Mallory. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
@Platypus Man: Here she is (left) from Malcolm in the Middle. I doubt anyone'll be reading this, but I felt like posting it. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
Fuck the haters, good costume Lisa.
(And as a side note - All That is still going? Man that takes me back to my childhood.) #lisafoiles
11/02/09
Off the top of my head I've never run into the annoying stereotype in Starcraft, Diablo 2, ArmA, Socom 1&2, and FFXI. While Starcraft and Diablo 2 are popular....we're talking 1998 and 2000 man. Socom 2 also came around right before the online console boom, and FFXI isn't exactly the most popular MMO on the block nor the easiest to get into.
However, I still find it harder to run into girls that game versus Girl Gamerz, just like it's harder to find a thirteen year old on Steam, PSN, or Live that isn't a retarded little bastard that should be muted and banned from online interaction even if it's limited to text. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
The reason a lot of people don't bump into girl gamers in these titles is because quite often they'll create friend-only rooms to avoid being treated differently from their peers....
thats in my experience... I also know a few girls on xbox live who make their sex known first-and-foremost because they like the attention it garners... courses for horses, or something. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
This costume is so awesome, it's not even funny. Instead, it is sexy. I was also from Arkham Asylum for Halloween. I know it's not much, but I'm not a craftsman, and I made it myself: #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
I have never heard of this female person either, but if this were a publicity stunt it's a bad one. I mean, wouldn't you try to appeal to an audience interested in what you're selling? She's a Nickelodeon person... not a game designer/developer/publisher or porn "actress". What can she possibly offer us gamers? #lisafoiles
11/02/09
For a girl to wear that and hold a sign about kotaku, it's just trying to attract attention. Not simply say, I like kotaku. Her liking kotaku should be just as important as you, one more enlightended reader. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
Nothing wrong with the cosplay though, but preferring the orignal isnt a bad thing. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
The animated series' aesthetic, however, is very formal and modern. It feels fairly stylish and grown-up (as far as superhero characters can be, I guess). #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
@Accordion: That's -not- the ORIGINAL. When I watched Batman: The Animated series, Joker still had EYES. You know, with whites and pupils? And I'm sorry, The original Harley is cool and all, but I for one don't find zany looking cartoons sexy. Now sexy ladies that are scantily clad? That's what I think is sexy. Call me old fashioned. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
Call me mad, but i find a beatiful woman wearing a skin tight suit more attractive than a roughed up hooker look. Keep in mind im only talking about the in game presentation here, i have no objections to this pic of Lisa or her oufit, but its not so hard to see why people prefer the all in one look.
you dont need to be barely clothed to be sexy. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
/the Kenan & Kel generation of All That was the best. #lisafoiles
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
Girl Gamer is a tag reserved for girls who do nothing but squeel on their microphone and play ditzy to get attention from boys on the other side of the world. Do not want.
Edited in; Major girlcrush on Harley Quinn, but her old outfit was so much better!
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
11/02/09
Kudos for the effort put forth.
"In it she argued that girls who play games are not rare, but girl gamers are."
They're not.
They just lay low.
I'm male and I have quite a few female gamers in both my XBox Live and PSN friends lists. Not so much my XBox any more as I don't use it online and I emptied the list, but it was rather full in the past
Not to mention the various forums I'm signed up with.
They lay low because it is a mostly male dominated market, and the average male in that demographic is a sexist pig.
And to clarify, I said "average" as in not all of them. That's before all the insecure people who feel I'm talking about them try to defend them selves against a non-attack, and showing that in fact they are that person.
Let's just say, if you do take offense by that, then you are that person. Someone who isn't will just let it go, knowing it's not aimed at them.
I feel sorry for any girls wanting to play games.
They're all met with the textbook remark: "A girl, and she plays games?".
I find some of the best gamers I know are girls, granted a hand full of them are Japanese and live every waking moment in arcades.
But still.
But my point;
"Girl Gamers" should not be a term. And it's rather sexist.
They're "Gamers" just like the rest of us. Just because they have mammary glands and internal reproductive organs doesn't make them less of a gamer.
I'd bet anything a lot of them could kick most male backside on a game.
PS: They can vote now, you know! (sarcasm)
11/02/09