How entrenched is sexism in the gaming industry? The folks running the focus groups for Naughty Dog’s soon to be released “Last of Us” only tested male gamers.

All we know is she’s fighting, she going to be on the ground with characters you play with and she’s–well that’s more than enough. In contrast to the Call of Duty series DICE is actively working to include women in their shooters.

Lara escapes, and plummets a few stories into a pool of bodies and blood. She rises from it covered in ichor, baptized by death itself and armed only with her bow and a single arrow and damn it, Lara Croft is suddenly the coolest hero in video games.

Injustice, the Lois Lane slaughtering new property from DC needs a heroine, who better than a mad, skimpily dressed Harley Quinn?

A trailer for Saints Row 4, one of the few AAA video game titles with a canonically queer heroine. And this time she has super powers.

Youtube User/Dad Mike Mika hacked the original Donkey Kong so Pauline rescues Mario at the request of his three year old daughter.

This is reprinted with permission from Chris’s personal blog. Chris is a hardcore retro video game enthusiast and when he isn’t play old games so bad they’ll make your eyes bleed he’s performing with his video game band, Gimmick! or playing bass for brentalfloss. I don’t have to tell you that the game Metroid was [...]

The summer of 2000 I spent hunched over the family computer playing StarCraft and building a really awful AOL Homepage website. I don’t remember much about that summer. I ate a lot of cheese and stared at the computer for hours on end, pausing only to rush into the air-conditioned part of the house for [...]

Far Cry 3 is desperately close to being my favorite game of the year. It’s the best shooter in a year that gave us another solid Call of Duty and the entertaining as hell Borderlands 2. It’s the rare first person shooter that does stealth absolutely perfectly and when you execute a mission with complete [...]

I’ll admit, I was never one for Halo’s storyline. Though the term “space opera” was bandied about quite a bit I just couldn’t get into what really seemed to amount a series of war films in space. That just never clicked with my personal sense of operatic. While I’ve always liked the games well enough [...]