Lesbian Gamers

Link in LesboLand

What happens when two cute girls decide to dress up as Link from the Zelda series for some cosplay fun, well they actually look better than most of the boys. DS Fanboy has a whole load of shots of the girls Linking it up, including a few TaTu styled hugs... awww.

It has to be said the girls did a fantastic job with their Link 'Four Swords' outfits as opposed to the traditional green Link is probably most well known for. The girls could even pass as elf maidens at a fantasy LARP session. You can check out one other TaTu styled shot after the jump, for all others check out DS Fanboy.

MX vs ATV faux lesbians

What is it about marketers and faux lesbians? I actually read a psychology paper that suggested the reason men like “lesbian” porn is because the only penis involved in their mind is their own and that it’s therefore hotter for them because the ‘size doesn’t matter’ rule comes into play. I don’t know if that’s true, but it does make me wonder as to the penis size of all the guys on the marketing team at THQ games.

If you’re wondering why, take a peek at the clip below. It’s an advert for their upcoming game ‘MX vs ATV Untamed’, as you’ll see it has a whole lot to do with the game, no really… well... if the game were called ‘MX Porn Faux Lesbian vs ATV Porn Faux Lesbian’, which is isn’t. Maybe in THQ’s dictionary ‘Untamed’ reads:

Untamed
Adjective
Use faux lesbianism in game advert to hopefully sell to brain-dead teen boys still not savvy enough to realize your game is probably crap--so needs faux lesbianism and bare naked girly asses to sell it.

Dyke Doubles - Dani Reese / Carla Valenti

Today sees the first in our 'Dyke Doubles' articles. So what is a Dyke Double, well, glad you asked. A Dyke Double is where we look at a games character and make some connection between them and a real life person who is in some way connected to our lesbian world. Confused? Ahh well hopefully all will become clear in the actual article.

We'll be running these now and again, but our premiere Dyke Double takes on two super cool ladies: Dani Reese from Life and Carla Valenti from the game Indigo Prophecy (aka Fahrenheit). The lesbian link comes from Sarah Shahi, who of course played Carmen in The L Word and also plays Dani Reese in NBC's hit cop series Life.

We hope you like the article and if you have any glaringly obvious Dyke Double combos, please let us know either via news tip, or in the comments. We've already got a few on the backburner for future editions, so it will be interesting to see what people can come up with. Enjoy Dyke Doubles - Dani Reese and Carla Valenti.

Is SSX's Zoe Payne a Lesbian?

Yes we're back with our "Is 'insert cool grrl character here' a lesbian?" piece. You may recall a couple of weeks ago we looked at Jade from Beyond Good and Evil, well today we're going to look at Zoe Payne from the SSX snowboarding series of games. We think our gaydars tweaked more than a little when Zoe hit our screens, let's see why.

Zoe Payne has an interesting bio, her nemesis is Elise Riggs, a tall blonde 'amazon' from Canada (but Elise's favorite thing in the world is men, so strike her off the lesbo list.. even though she's Canadian, into sports.. and female--go figure!). Zoe would like to "open her own bike/coffee shop" if she weren't a pro boarder (strike up the points!), she's also a fan of climbing the worlds largest summits, no doubt because she likes going down afterwards. When asked if she wears boxers or briefs, she coyly replies with "What do you think." So.. what do we think.. is she or are we barking up the wrong snow covered dyke?

Is Jade a Lesbian?

Any lesbian to have played the game 'Beyond Good & Evil', originally released by Ubisoft back in 2003, has perhaps pondered this very question. Is Jade a lady who likes other ladies? This is something we've long pondered, so let's look at what we know about our dark haired heroine and see what we can glean from it.

Jade is single, sassy and likes photography.. hmm.. so are a lot of women. She has a funky short hairdo, doesn't wear much make-up and when she does she opts for the non vaginal lip color of green over pinks and reds. She's 20 years old and owns her own company--Jade Reporting. She has (according to Ubisofts own words) "a marked taste for adventure and justice". She also wants to bring about change and fights against prejudice and propoganda.

How we doing so far? She also likes motor vehicles and adopts the nickname 'Shauni' as her alias. We're not saying that every girl who likes bikes and has short hair is a dyke, even though we'd like to think it.. but come on Jade exudes the lesbian vibe. Whenever I see her on screen, my gaydar goes crazy, much as it does with someone like, oh I don't know.. Jessica Biel for example.. ahem..

Whether Jade is ever outed or not doesn't matter to us here at Lesbian Gamers. In our hearts she will always be the cute baby dyke photographer and that's what imagination is all about.

Nathan Drake's Femme Sidekick

Ahhh Helen Hunt in Twister, there's just something about a cute lady in a vest top.. ahem where were we.. oh yes.. lady in vest top, which brings us neatly to Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on the PS3. We've been persuing a few trailers for this macho fest and noticed a certain little lady (pictured). The girl in question appears to help Nathan Drake on his quest.

Now whether or not this blonde is one of those pathetic 'girly' wimp characters placed within the games framework to act as a tool for making the main character all that more macho, we won't until we've played it. Whatever the case, why even bother with Nathan Drake, when you already have the lovely Lady Lara to play with.. do we really need 'Dude Raider' when we'd rather push Lara's buttons?