I think we’re all in agreement around here that it would be great if more women were gamers. Or, more precisely, if more women were the type of gamer who actually discussed their hobby

An internal video from the windows game team shows a decidely casual gaming future

  I’ve completely overestimated casual gamers. The most popular casual game on the planet (at the moment), Facebook’s Farmville is apparently so confusing and difficult to play that it requires one of those yellow tomes for the braindead  and clueless, The Dummies Guide. Of course, I’m being dismissive because I can, never actually having played the game. I’m sure there …

There are many gamers out there, admittedly mostly male, who dream of sharing their passion with their significant other. They dream of intense capture-the-flag sessions, where each partner has the other one’s back. They envision themselves as an unstoppable Arena team – a Paladin and a Druid perhaps – kicking ass in Azeroth. And they see themselves slaughtering zombies side …

Browsing through the comments under my first girl gaming and gaming lifestyle column, one statement was repeatedly confirmed by readers. And that is how women who play video games are, on the whole, more likely to fall into the casual gaming category, as opposed to the hardcore and ultra-competitive. We previously established that there are plenty of women – of …

Playdom is not, as I imagined, some sort of novelty prophylactic. It is in fact a rather successful developer of casual games for online social platforms like Facebook. They currently have 42 million active users logging in to games like Mobsters, Social City, Sorority Life, Market Street and Bola every day. Disney – who fairly recently purchased Marvel – obviously …

You know those seedy “800” telephone services, where lonely men could phone up and chat with a “hot” girl, and ask them original things like “So..what’re you wearing?” for a nominal fee? Well, that’s made a jump to the modern age, and internet upstart Gamecrush is now offering sad, lonely bastards the opportunity to get their video game on with …

Wildly popular Facebook game Farmville is indeed wildly popular. Picture one middle aged woman. Now multiply her by thirty. Now imagine that group of thirty middle aged women, and arbitrarily multiply that by one million. That’s how many people play FarmVille every single day – and it’s just a fraction of the number of registered FarmVille Users. According to data …