Mike Mika's three-year-old daughter loves playing old video games with him. One day, when they were duel conquering Donkey Kong, she became a bit miffed because she could only pick Mario to rescue Pauline, and not the other way around. That's not only due to Mario being the worst (just ask Wario, he'll tell you all…

Anita Sarkeesian didn't let male gamer trolls deter her from successfully funding her Kickstarter on oversexualized tropes of women in video games — in fact, her project raised more than 26 times her original goal of $6,000 thanks to all the added publicity. Revenge is extra sweet when it's ironic, lucrative and…

A new Facebook game inspired by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, in which players are tasked with the goal of "raising awareness" of issues like female genital mutilation, child prostitution, and sex trafficking, launches early next…

Pint-sized programming wizard Zora Ball is now the youngest person to create a full version of a mobile application video game. A first grader at Philadelphia's Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School, she's already more accomplished than everyone you know. Consequently, we should all go eat a tub…

It's currently very slim pickings when it comes to playable female characters in popular military video games, even though there are more female gamers playing them than ever before. Now that women will be fighting on the IRL front lines, will virtual female soldiers make history, too? Some gamers believe so.

We love Leigh Alexander's proposal that Feb 1st should be "Objectify a Man in Tech Day," meaning "whenever you tweet an article, quote, comment or video from a man, add a comment about their appearance or attractiveness."

Gabrielle Toledano, executive vice president and chief talent officer of Electronic Arts, doesn't think the video game industry is sexist, according to her recent Forbes op-ed. Moreover: she thinks it's a "cop-out" to "blame men for not creating an attractive work environment."

God, you know what I hate about intact, living female bodies? YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP YAP. It's like, can't you bitches see I'm trying to play my open-world action role-playing game right now!!?!?!?? Amirite, dudes? Seriously. But then—conundrum!—the thing about female bodies is that female bodies is where they keep…

While it's not technically #ff (Follow Friday) anymore or whatever, yesterday a helpful tipper clued us into the existence of @maleprivelege, billed in the profile bar as "the big, dumb, invisible monolith." The Tweets, sampled below, are satirical, many gaming-themed, and all of them are right on the money.

Guys, we have a problem. We are letting way too many boys get into adulthood without actually becoming men. We're seeing more and more adult males around who are not men. They're as old as men, but they have the mentality of nine-year-old boys. They're causing a lot of trouble, both in general and for the game…

Steven Bonnell, known as Destiny to his tens of thousands of fans, is a famous Starcraft II player who recently came under fire for "e-cheating" on his girlfriend with an allegedly 18 21-year-old female fan known as Bluetea. After Bluetea found out that Bonnell had privately shared naked photos of her with his…

When my tradeshow agent unexpectedly calls to say, "Hey, I've got some fun news!", being stuffed into a skimpy racecar driver costume isn't exactly what I have in mind. It's 7:30 a.m. on the second day of E3, the biggest gaming expo in the country, and I'm still reeling from a curling iron burn when the phone rings.…

Still thinking about yesterday's booth babe debate? Genevieve Dempre wrote a rebuttal to that obnoxious CNN piece about how beauty-obsessed pseudo-geeks are taking over the gaming industry as we know it and brought up some great points, such as:

There's been a lot of productive discourse on the topic of misogyny in the gaming world over the past few months, but there's also this frustratingly pervasive counter argument permeating the comments on stories about women like Anita Sarkeesian and Felicia Day: sure, gender equality is great, but shouldn't we admit…

Anita Sarkeesian didn't set out to piss off an army of male gamers when she launched a Kickstarter to raise money for a project that aimed to examine cliched, oversexualized tropes of women in video games. But apparently, daring to say anything bad about video gamers being sexist is enough to amass an entire army of…

Almost 100 years after being granted the right to vote and several decades after the Women's Movement, it seems there are still many, many men — especially in the sweaty boys' locker room of internet nerdery — who don't quite grasp the fact that women, like them, are actual human people with intelligence and worth.…

What prompted a gaming writer to go on a Twitter rampage against actress, gamer, and self-described "new media geek" Felicia Day last weekend? The now-fired blogger says he was just acting "drunk and stupid." But the incident is yet another example of how easy it is for gamers to bond over misogyny.

Love Them Madly blogger Jodie has two sons, and they have have limited screen and video game time — "especially this time of year." She writes: "We love Fruit Ninja, but bringing the game to life was a fun way to get my kids to put down the iPhone for some good outdoor summer fun."

A new revamped version of the iconic Tomb Raider aims to explain how Lara became the scantily clad badass fighter teenage boys rubbed one out to in 1997, but if you were expecting a similarly fun romp of Croftian ass kickery this time around, you'll be sorely disappointed. One executive at the studio behind the new…

When I was ten years old, a company called Purple Moon (in keeping with the rule that any company with a female target audience needs to work in a reference to the moon at some point) had just developed a series of computer games for preteen girls. They were simple story games set in middle schools and summer camps,…