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Boogie SuperStar

Yes, I Really Did Watch A Guy Play Boogie Superstar

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.

I'm presuming that very few of you reading this are young females between the ages of six and 12 who love to karaoke to Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love, or dance to the best of Fergie and Good Charlotte. The songlist is intimidatingly marquee, though, and one of the major takeaways from having the game demoed for me was just how far games have forged in getting the music biz to recognize their power in helping label artists stay relevant to a new audience.

And while Boogie SuperStar might not be a game specifically for you or for me, I think that's pretty important - equally cool was the motion recognition tech.

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1:20 PM on Fri Jun 27 2008
By Leigh Alexander
2,518 views, 14 comments

mobile gaming

Mobile's Lara Croft?

"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 »

6:00 PM on Tue Oct 30 2007
By Mike Fahey
9,155 views, 37 comments

Latest by n/a: "Mistaking us for gentleman was your first mistake." and how. rofl. i'm just waiting for the game with the mousy librarian protagonist. or maybe even a beekeeper. more »

imagine that

Bogost on Imagine: They Aren't New, Y'All

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 »

2:30 PM on Sat Oct 6 2007
By Maggie Greene
952 views, 7 comments

Latest by Gigith: I used to have Dogz, I saw Babyz in the store once.Ever since Catz, Dogz and Babyz I've hated people using z as an s. Bugs the hell out of me. more »

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Enchanted Princess Journey

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.

11:20 AM on Mon Jul 2 2007
By Mike Fahey
3,898 views, 40 comments

Latest by Lanky Bugger: So... what? Was Squaresoft too uppity to swap out Sora for Kairi for a Nintendo DS/Wii game? I mean, you probably would have gotten a better title. more »

clips

Clip: Haloid - Fan Service Evolved

Okay, all you folks can shut up now, we're posting the Halo and Metroid fan movie, Haloid. More »

2:20 PM on Wed Apr 18 2007
By Mike Fahey
17,582 views, 183 comments

Latest by t0yrobo: wft, this dude must watch way too much anime more »

dr. 90210

Rant: Dr. 90210 the Video Game Girls Please!

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 »

2:40 PM on Tue Apr 10 2007
By Kim Phu
5,671 views, 46 comments

girls

And The Girl Gamer Award Nominees Are...

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.
We are furthering our efforts to bring more awareness of the female gaming community," says Gamer Girls Radio host, Danger Doll, "This is one of many steps we will take to ensure that developers have the information they need from female gamers to help them market to us better."

Winners will be chosen via a poll on Gameinatrix, which will stay open for a month. Once the votes are tallied the winners will receive a "Girl Gamer Approved" seal (see author's rendition at the top right.) More »

9:20 AM on Wed Mar 28 2007
By Mike Fahey
634 views, 38 comments

Latest by EosChild: @noneother Well, Cooking Mama is a fabulous game. At the risk of sounding like a typical girl, playing it made me want to try out some new recipes. @ FranUnFine Yea, I'm quite tired of being told "games are for men." more »

sex

Girl Gamers Are Easy

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.
Of our sample of 200 women, those who played video games on average had sex 4.3 times a week while those who didn't play games only had sex just 3.2 times a week.

A completely useless poll done for the purpose of advertising their site, of course. Do they take into account age? Looks? What was their definition of having sex? Rumble or no rumble? Most importantly, where is the photographic evidence?
Perhaps even more promising for gamers is the fact that many of the women that we interviewed who have only recently started playing games said that they now have sex more often than before.

As a wise doctor once said, "You are telling lies!" So what they are saying here is playing video games will enhance your sex life. Anyone else notice this particular phenomenon? Michael Fahey More »

10:40 AM on Wed Feb 14 2007
By Mike Fahey
10,520 views, 42 comments

Latest by R0bster: I'd be lucky if I even got some of that .2 action. more »

sega

Oh Noes, Love And Berry Anime Announced

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 »

10:22 AM on Wed Jan 31 2007
By Brian Ashcraft
1,407 views, 11 comments

pantsu

Kotaku Pantsu: A Chat With Wii Panty Girl

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 »

6:10 PM on Wed Jan 3 2007
By Mike Fahey
8,344 views, 102 comments

wii

Wii in Your Panties

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 »

12:40 PM on Wed Jan 3 2007
By Mike Fahey
7,455 views, 92 comments

jubblies

The Physics of Gaming Jubblies

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 »

10:40 AM on Mon Dec 11 2006
By Mike Fahey
2,812 views, 26 comments

ds lite

Sparkly Paris Hilton DS on eBay

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 »

2:40 PM on Fri Dec 8 2006
By Mike Fahey
2,713 views, 29 comments

sex

The Gorgeous Ladies of 8-Bit

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.
Ariel is a mermaid which means that while she may look human, her lady business has been replaced with a fish tail. That's not cool. And while I certainly wouldn't WANT to make love to a mermaid, I probably would out of morbid curiousity; I need to know if fish genitalia smells like a woman.

He obviously wrote this to get chicks. Other list makers include Zelda, Arylon from Final Fantasy, and Mario's resident transvestite, Birdo. The list can be a bit harsh at times, but it's just the thing to help make a painfully slow Friday afternoon go by a little faster. Besides, nothing with a Tawny Kitaen reference in it can be all that bad. Michael Fahey More »

3:40 PM on Fri Dec 1 2006
By Mike Fahey
1,623 views, 12 comments

Latest by strider_mt2k: I had to laugh a couple of times reading this article. I remember changing the channel away from Duck Tales and Rescue Rangers. more »

girls

The Pink PSP Party

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 »

12:22 PM on Tue Nov 28 2006
By Brian Ashcraft
2,345 views, 31 comments

Latest by gixo: I just love the "Only In Japan" tag :D more »

bedazzler

UK Gets Glittery, Girly Pink DS Lite

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 »

7:40 PM on Tue Nov 21 2006
By Michael McWhertor
4,881 views, 28 comments

wii

Men's Health Magazine Prescribes Wii to Women

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 »

8:40 AM on Fri Oct 27 2006
By brownlee2
434 views, 18 comments

girls

Little Girls Delighted With Their DS Lites

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 »

11:40 AM on Wed Oct 25 2006
By brownlee2
786 views, 35 comments

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