New Stats on Female Gamers Shatter Myths

That's actually pretty cool. I agree with Andie on that it's sad and kind of weird that in order to prove that girls do know how to play games and that we actually DO play games to others, an entire study is done. Though I wish I knew what size their sample population was, though I might have missed that somewhere in the slides since they were a little hard to read. Personally, I'm in between competitive and immersive. I love RPGs, of course, but I like showin' my guy friends how it's done on Halo 3.I might have to look more into this for a future speech class project... hmm... ideas, ideas.

Interesting study! It's also a little sad that we have to do studies on women gamers just to prove that there are women gamers to everyone else.I'm not really sure where I fit in, maybe competitor? I like to game a lot but am not really into the cutesy stuff unless you consider Lego games cutesy (which they can be!). I play with my husband. We are strictly console gamers. We play co-op and also single players with each other. Single player games we just pass the controller back and forth giving each other equal game time. It works well because there are some stuff that he's good at that I am not and vice versa. I love being able to spend my weekends gaming! But online and social gaming isn't my thing. I'm highly invested in games and have a say in what games get purchased. To me, that just makes me a gamer!

I'm definitely a Competitor! I'm so glad someone did his study precise and honest!!! Thank goodness, hopefully things will change for the better!!!!

That's actually pretty cool. I agree with Andie on that it's sad and kind of weird that in order to prove that girls do know how to play games and that we actually DO play games to others, an entire study is done. Though I wish I knew what size their sample population was, though I might have missed that somewhere in the slides since they were a little hard to read. Personally, I'm in between competitive and immersive. I love RPGs, of course, but I like showin' my guy friends how it's done on Halo 3.

I might have to look more into this for a future speech class project... hmm... ideas, ideas.

Interesting study! It's also a little sad that we have to do studies on women gamers just to prove that there are women gamers to everyone else.

I'm not really sure where I fit in, maybe competitor? I like to game a lot but am not really into the cutesy stuff unless you consider Lego games cutesy (which they can be!). I play with my husband. We are strictly console gamers. We play co-op and also single players with each other. Single player games we just pass the controller back and forth giving each other equal game time. It works well because there are some stuff that he's good at that I am not and vice versa. I love being able to spend my weekends gaming! But online and social gaming isn't my thing. I'm highly invested in games and have a say in what games get purchased. To me, that just makes me a gamer!