Interview: Tanya Otero, USA Sales Director for Aerial 7

Tanya Otero, USA Sales Director for Aerial 7 has been in the business of selling fun for a couple of decades. She started competing in snowboard contests which led to working in a snowboard retail environment, followed by being an independent sales rep, then a regional sales manager, then National sales manager, a brand manager and now Sales Director at Aerial 7 USA headquarters. Tanya, a self proclaimed snowboarder believes that snowboarding without music is like having a computer without email access, therefore happy to have access to a quiver of listening devices at Aerial 7. As a resident of Encinitas CA Tanya is able to focus on career and quality lifestyle simultaneously. Tanya believes that if you work from a place of passion your work can enhance your lifestyle and lead to long term success. Geek Woman: I was told that you are a snowboarder, do you still enjoy

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Review: Two Worlds II (PS3)

Rating: M (for Mature) Genre: Role Playing Publisher: South Peak Games Developer: Topware Interactive Release Date: January 25, 2011 RENT Unexpectedly Two Worlds was an engaging and enjoyable RPG. Even though you could not play as a female avatar, it did well enough for what it was. As RPG’s go many people have distinct favorites. This game isn’t going to be replacing any mega hit JRPG’s anytime soon. But like that secondary anime that you watch in between episodes of your favorite, this game’s few flaws aren’t bad enough to prevent you from wasting some time on it. With a Gandalf clone named Gandahar as the villain, although it seems very LOTR-esque in some ways, the story does have a female at the center of the plot. The main character’s sister has been abducted and an evil sorcerer who held your character captive as well, is extracting her magical mana

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Are You a Luminous Woman?

What do you have in common with the First Lady of China, Madeleine Albright and Margaret Thatcher? Or maybe your personality resembles Ayn Rand and Lady Godiva. Find out by trying out Luminous, a game App that is now at the Apple App Store. With it you take personality tests that will give you a present life reading. By choosing answers to the questions, the game will tell you what famous women in history and fiction, think the way you do. it has stunning fractal graphics, soothing music and chimes. It is a short but informative quiz game that you will be certain to pass around the lunch table or the office on your iPad. It also links up directly with their Facebook page where you can nominate other famous women who have impressed you, to be part of the game.

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Interview: Jessica Chavez, Senior Editor/Community Manager, XSEED Games

Jessica Chavez is a 29 year-old localization specialist who has a love of Japanese culture and gaming, a penchant for the sarcastic/absurd, and an unholy love of bacon. She has worked at XSEED Games for nearly three years as an editor and is primarily responsible for inserting crude and shocking witticisms into unsuspecting treasure chest messages. She has been lead editor on several projects of questionable humor such asHalf-Minute Hero, Lunar: Silver Star Harmony and Rune Factory: Frontier, has labored with great justice on works such as Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces and Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, and has slaved mightily over the text-heavy monster that is Ivy the Kiwi?. Most recently she tackled The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky during a nine month stint where she was chained to her home desktop and allowed neither sunlight nor the joy of human company. Her current mental

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Interview: Marti McKenna and Stacey Janssen, Writers for En Masse Entertainment

This time we have an interview with two ladies who have a background in SyFy writing. Marti McKenna is a 22-year game industry vet and a lifelong geek girl. Her games career began in the late ’80s at Sierra Online, where she worked her way up from the assembly line through the fulfillment, customer service, marketing, and game design departments. In the early ’90s she took a senior writer position at Electronic Arts and eventually went on to lead the EA writing team. More recently she worked on Guild Wars and Aion (for ArenaNet and NCsoft) respectively, and now holds the position of Writing Team Manager at En Masse Entertainment. Marti has also been busy outside the games industry. Over the past decade she worked as fiction editor for Scorpius Digital Publishing and Aeon Speculative Fiction and as editor-at-large for The Internet Review of Science Fiction. Her short fiction has

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First Look: Journey (PS3) Closed Beta Preview

A couple of days ago, I lucked out snagging a beta code to Journey after winning a contest through 1UP. I was very excited to get my hands on this title, as Journey is one of my most anticipated games for the year – other than Uncharted 3, of course – and has no set release date as of yet. Journey is a PS3 exclusive title created by ThatGameCompany, the developers of the games Flower and Flow. Santa Monica Studios – the creator of the God of War series – also co-developed Journey. However, Santa Monica’s role was not a huge surprise as they have worked on other similar projects, such as the PS3 interactive art piece, Linger in the Shadows.  Journey has a very mystical look and feel to it. As I wandered across a vast desert that the sand rippled and sparkled like a golden ocean. The sand dunes

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School 26: Summer of Secrets

Silicon Sisters is a female development studio from Canada. Not too long ago we interviewed them for Women in Games. Coming soon they will be celebrating the season with a brand new School 26 game. They are calling it tantalizingly subtitled. Summer of Secrets is coming to the App Store in July. Like the first School 26 installment, School 26: Summer of Secrets is a school themed game aimed for girls. It has unique psychological gameplay revolving around social skills. The School 26 games are said to have been developed with the help of academic research and had extensive focus testing among teens. School 26: Summer of Secrets includes music from up-and-coming Vancouver band Hey Ocean! The first School 26 game is currently on sale $0.99 for iPhone / iPod Touch or $1.99 for iPad.

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Review: Order & Chaos Online (iOS)

Rating: 9+ Frequent/Intense cartoon or fantasy violence Platform: iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad Publisher: Gameloft Genre: MMORPG Release Date: April 29. 2011 BUY Game Loft has produced and successfully released it’s first MMO. Order and Chaos has been called a World of Warcraft knock-off. But in playing Order and Chaos, I feel like I have been playing Guild Wars pre-Searing. When I think of elves that have the long floppy ears, and characters with tree trunk shaped feet then I think of WoW. The human character designs only slightly resemble those good old shoeless, ugly, WoW avatars that you had come to love. Right now for $6.99 at the Apple App store, you can play Order and Chaos on any iOS device for three months. It is the usual fare character choices: human, elf, ogre, and undead. There are professions to choose from such as warrior, mage, monk (cleric) and

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Burn The City Free For Android

Canadian developer JoshOClock promises that Burn the City is an action-packed shooter. In it you will play as the role of an adorable creature born to an empty nest. Your family has been kidnapped by humans. You are going to have to do something to avenge them. Your mission is to seek revenge for your kidnapped siblings. You’ll be armed with destructive smoking-hot fireballs, for some mayhem and slaughter. Burn The City features 45 levels, intuitive controls, touch, drag and release. Similar in style to Angry Birds™ and Worms™, this game will keep you addicted for hours, and includes explosive physics and Game Center support for the competitive players. At your aid to destroy all mankind you have your fireball attack, and by eating different colored YUMs that are gathered by destroying crates throughout the levels, you obtain 3 special attacks: the first is TNT, which turns the standard fireball

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Dreams HD Free on Daily App Dream

Dreams HD is a new game from developers Difference Games & Greyhound Games. Right now Dreams (HD) on the Apple iPad is available for FREE effective June 24th, in a limited time promotion on popular games- and app-portal, Daily App Dream (www.dailyappdream.com). In this artistic game, you step into the mind of artist Stephanie Herrera as you play through sixteen high-resolution levels of spot the difference in two pictures as gameplay. Each level displays two images which have subtle differences. You look for things that do not match between the two. Once you spot something wrong you just tap it. The faster you discover them, the more points you will get. Every mistake deducts from your points. You have a hint button at your disposal to get a nudge in the right direction. Since the original PC version was released as a free web game 3 years ago, it has

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