The Day with Girl Gamers Suck
Added at 12:37pm and filed under Geek Speak, awesome, gaming
Introducing my latest project – girlgamerssuck.com.
You know me. I like games. I often don’t have time to play as much as I would like – and when I do play, I’m often kinda crap – but I’ve grown up with gaming and I love it. It’s part of my childhood, part of my life and undeniably part of who I am.
I have loved the last six months I’ve been writing for AeroPause. Having skirted the world of online game geekery for a number of years – SHH.com aside, obviously – its been wonderful to fully immerse myself without the guilt or hang-ups. The guys I ‘work’ with are all kinds of awesome, and I hope to be there for many years to come. And it’s spurred me to run with an idea I’ve had for as long as I’ve been online – a gaming site for women.
Yes, there are loads already (although – in my defense – there wasn’t ONE when I first thought of the idea!). But they’re generally all pretty . . . meh. See, I don’t do pink. I don’t care about girl power. I also don’t care about pony games or dream weddings and I don’t play MMORPGs, either. So I’ve ended up creating what I hope is a gaming site for people who genuinely don’t give a shit about gender. People who wouldn’t mind exploring some of the psychology around gaming, as well as keep abreast with selected news and reviews.
It took forever to think of a name. I originally didn’t really want to focus on the ‘girl’ or female aspects but to be honest, it’s impossible for me to drive the message that girls can game without that focus – which is where my idea comes from. I didn’t want to rip off any other girl gamer sites with a similar name, but I realised that I also didn’t want to drop the female aspect – which is why I seemed to keep coming back to the sarcastically titled girlgamerssuck.com.
So please – come visit me! Comment and contribute. Is there anything you’d like to see on there – anything I’m missing? What do you like? Dislike? It’s been forever since I launched a new project from scratch so please tell me your thoughts and help me get this thing off the ground!
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On 4 January, 2010 at 3:58 pm, Selphie said:
I tried commenting on one of the entries but the browser’s just endlessly loading the page… :o
On 4 January, 2010 at 6:07 pm, Vixx said:
Really? Cos I received your comment okay!
On 5 January, 2010 at 8:44 am, Audrey said:
I love this. I’ll have to have a look tomorrow (it’s 12:40am here atm and sleep calls).
On 5 January, 2010 at 3:57 pm, Sharon said:
Great idea, I love it :)
On 5 January, 2010 at 11:20 pm, Char said:
I was poking around on the site already, I love it :)
On 8 January, 2010 at 9:23 pm, Teesee said:
What a fabulous name!
I remember reading you got Assassin’s Creed 2 for christmas, it’s by far one of my most favourite games ever. Hope you write a review for it.
Well done on the new project. Again you amaze me with your multi-tasking skills. You are awesome!