Want Video Games To Appeal To Women? Make &#39;Em Pink &amp;
More Child-LikeWhat's the best way for a guy to trick you into
playing video games? That's the question raised today by the
MSNBC article "How To Get Your Girlfriend Into Gaming," about a
panel that took place in front of a room of male gamers at the
Penny Arcade Expo gaming convention in Seattle this past
weekend. While the question of how to draw more women to the
video game industry could have made for great discussion, it
appears that the five female gamers heading up the panel offered
men a stereotype-laden plot to lure their girlfriends into
tolerating their behavior... using children's games and a pink,
bedazzled Nintendo DS as bait. In the process, they pretty much
summed up why more women aren't interested in gaming.The article
suggests that the reason there aren't more female gamers is
twofold: Men are uncommunicative jerks while playing video
games, and women are intimidated by complex, violent games like
Halo and operating a machine with