Game Makers Not Chasing Women?

We need more chix in gaming, not only in the games but outside of them too.
"One of the key ways such games can exclude women is in the "hyper-sexualized" avatar choices they are offered, with distended Lara Croft-like physiques, Taylor said. The proportion of women playing such games would likely increase if they were given more freedom to choose the way in which they're electronically represented.

"If you talk to women who are EverQuest players, they hate their avatar choices," Taylor said. "It's like they have to wear chain-mail bikinis." "

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