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GTA Lesbo - Multiplayer Fun

What's this? Lesbians in GTA? No we're not talking about the "lesbians" you'll encounter in the strip clubs that writhe all over one another to comical effect, we're talking cool, playable GTA lesbo. Seriously.

You can get your pride on in GTA multiplayer just like this. We thought this was pretty cool when we discovered it and thought you gals might too. It also shows that Rockstar actually took the time to not dismiss their mass female following, so grab your baseball caps, glasses, women's pride top and have a blast.

We've been giving GTA a lot of thought recently, given the love / hate surrounding the title [as briefly addressed in our GTA HooHarr article]. Gay Girls Who Game will be bringing lesbian thoughts about GTA in their next episode.

Juno Eclipse - Unleashed

Juno Eclipse is one of the characters in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed game. She's the romantic interest for the player character. We can't find anything on whether you can choose to play a male of female player character, but if you can, you know what that means ladies!

We're assuming however we'll all be 'forced' into playing the usual male lead, which, will be really quite annoying. This completely disenfranchises all of us female mega Star Wars fans who would opt to play a female lead. Still fingers crossed, you never can tell, we've contacted the developer to ask.

GTA IV - Sexist crap or just how guys are?

I was reading an interesting article over at Reverse Cowgirl about the misogynist content of GTA IV. I was about to write a small piece based on a video I’d seen (I’ll add it at the end) and quite frankly I was disturbed, irritated and about to go on a feminist rant, then a reverse cowgirl made me stop and think.

Here’s the overall thing. I was thinking from what I’ve seen of GTA IV thus far that it demeans women, it’s helping perpetuate stereotypes, it’s sexist and as Feministing stated “reflective of the bigger misogyny embedded in capitalist patriarchy”. I was thinking all of those things because of a few embedded personal feelings I have about men and gaming.

Firstly it was my assumption that men are capable of mature, intelligent thought and that they aren’t thinking about fucking every 6 seconds. I also was under the preconceived notion (perhaps based on the fact I am a female gamer) that gamers get a bad rap for their hobby and are more often than not inextricably linked to enjoying violence for violence sake and being sad anti social blokes.

Gay Girls Who Game - Epi Sixteen

It's episode sweet sixteen for the Gay Girls Who Game and this week they're putting on their seatbelts and doing things Mario Kart style. There's the usual viewer feedback where the girls answer your queries (or Queeries? - Ed.) and give general feedback, as well as a very special tour.

Episode Sixteen of Gay Girls Who Game (thanks to AfterEllen.com and LesbianGamers.com) also features reviews of Mario Kart on the Nintendo Wii and Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters for the PS2. along with loads of other gaming talk!

Without further ado you can catch Episode Sixteen of Gay Girls Who Game HERE.

The L Word Game Rating System

If you've been watching the Gay Girls Who Game video show, you'll know Lesbian Gamers will be publishing reviews as well as reviewing titles sent out by publishers on the show. Because of this, we've devised a new video game reviewing system you will only see here at Lesbian Gamers.

Gone are those boring 'out of 10' review scores and replacing them is The L word Video Game Reviewing System, ahh yes, lots of lesbian loveliness used to explain a games good or bad points. You can check out the Lesbian Gamers L Word Game Review system right HERE (just so you can get a handle on it).

GTA IV gay content?

Rockstar title GTA IV might have some gay content it seems. Don't get too excited, there's may not be and cool lesbian types in it, to the best of our knowledge. We're talking male gay gangster types, or at least that's the rumor.

Apparently one of the missions sees the protagonist cruise for a gay mobster so he can teach him a lesson or two. Not sure if this is linked to the rumor that the Australian content cut from GTA IV took the form of a gun being inserted into the back passage of a guy who had raped another guy in prison. Sounds like the two might be separate.

We'll be bringing you a full review and rundown on GTA IV including a special look at any female characters that pop up. Here's hoping the only "lesbians" if any aren't threesome material for the protagonist.