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Sadness by Nibris goes Gamebryo

Sadness is a title by Nibris that gathered quite a bit of chatter due to its odd mix of film led gameplay and black and white stylings. This is a little update for those interested in this title. It's still slated for a release (next year) and is utilising the Gamebryo engine, the same engine used for Oblivion and Fallout 3.

If you're still not interested, look at it this way, the trailer features a pretty girl in a tight vest top 'playing' Sadness on the Wii. Oh and she has a little touch of the Gina Gershon's about her (in game and out) Now who doesn't love that.

Jade back in Beyond Good & Evil 2?

Everyone’s favorite babydyke might be back in a new adventure. Rumors are flying once more that Michel Ancel has Beyond Good & Evil 2 on the cards. Apparently Yoshitaka Amano may well be involved in the project which is said to already be underway.

Amano has previously worked on illustrations for Vampire Hunter D and loads of video games including most-if not all-of the Final Fantasy series. Ancel created Beyond Good & Evil, a title that has reached a sort of semi cult status for its story and overall design.

We’re really hoping this rumor is true. We’re also hoping Jade isn’t slutted and hetted up for the sequel if it is in the works.

Gears of War 2 - Character Info

More Gears of War 2 info has arrived and as far as female characters go, it's not sounding too good ladies. Firstly there's Anya, you may recall she played the disembodied voice in the first Gears of War. She's back in the second and will apparently "play more of a role in the sequel" yippee... "getting her face in the action as an image on a video screen. Image? Oh well that sucks.

Other female characters mentioned in the article-that appeared in Game Informer magazine-include Maria Santiago, wife of Marcus Fenix's partner Dom. He'll be rescuing her in Gears of War 2, because let's face it that old chestnut NEVER gets old. Also it shows at least one of the characters has a wife, thus suggesting heterosexuality. The only other name mentioned is Dizzy, a "stranded soldier / truck driver" whose gender isn't mentioned, but let's assume it's a guy *sigh*. Dizzy was the name of a cool chick in Starship Troopers though, so you never know.

Velvet Assassin - Female & kicking ass

Replay Studios and publisher Gamecock has announced the official name change for ’Velvet Assassin’, their upcoming stealth-action title formerly known as ‘Sabotage’. The title is of interest to female gamers because it features a female protagonist in the form of real life hero Violette Szabo, a World War II Allied secret agent.

Velvet Assassin uses the clandestine art of sabotage Violette Szabo championed during the war period. The real story of Szabo is an amazing one--she coordinated sabotage attacks against the Germans and was a true war hero. Captured at a road block she was interrogated (including rape, torture techniques and brutal assaults). She was eventually executed in Feb 1945 at the age of 23.

More info and screens after the jump.

Elle - Turning the Straight Girls Gay

I got an email from a dear straight friend of mine this morning and in it she mentioned Elle out of the upcoming Silent Hill V (for PS3 and Xbox 360). She said "I was astonished when checking out the scans of Silent Hill 5 with a beautiful girl. One of the best female characters with normal clothes, a normal body, but a very very nice face which could even hypnotize me ;)"

The character in question is Elle, an old friend of Alex in the game. She's said to be street smart, but with a girl next door type look and personality. Kind of like Maria from Silent Hill 2 mixed with Heather from Silent Hill 3. Anyway that aside, this got us to thinking, what game characters have sent your straight girlfriends to the other side, if only in their minds? We know a lot of straight women would choose Angelina over Brad (according to 'statistics'), so it's not a new phenomenon, but what games characters do it for your straight gal friends?

We've included the images that got at least one straight girl swooning HERE. What do you guys think?

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?

Tomb Raider Legend II & Lara is Bi

Don't get your panties in a twist, read on... Remember our earlier foray into the future Lara Croft? Well this is just a little something to get your teeth into whilst we await Tomb Raider Legend II... Lara Croft is bi. What? when? How? Ok.. so not Lara Croft 'exactly', but the silken tongued Keeley Hawes who voiced her in Tomb Raider: Legend and Tomb Raider Anniversary.

Keeley is no stranger to the lesbian world, given she played 1890's hottie Kitty Butler in Tipping the Velvet. At the time she was interviewed by UK based Diva magazine, in which she stated rather matter of factly to being bi. Keeley is presently working on Tomb Raider Legend II which is set after the incident in the previous Tomb Raider Legend title. In Tomb Raider Legend II Lara Croft heads for Avalon, in search of her mother. And we're pretty sure we're one of the first gaming sites to even realise Tomb Raider Legend II is in the works, given we stumbled over it quite by accident, so huzzah us!

Female Characters in Mass Effect

Just wanted to highlight our special article about female characters in Mass Effect on the Xbox 360. If you're looking for an awesome title with more short haired women than you'd see at Lilith Fair, Mass Effect is going to be the game for you. We'll be updating this article regularly until we've got all the main female characters included.

The scary thing is, these aren't all the female characters we've seen so far in the game, these are just the ones that you will deal with on a deeper level. There are plenty of others that wander the worlds. Any questions about Mass Effect, just stick them in the comments section and we'll hopefully be able to answer them for you. We hope you like our exclusive article 'Female Characters in Mass Effect'.

Guitar Hero III - The Death of Dyke Rock

Two words that should strike fear in the hearts of women rockers who kick ass: 'augmentation mammoplasty', though apparently not in the minds of the dead heads that reproduced Judy Nails as some double D-cup dimwit in Guitar Hero III. Don't even get us started on what they've done with Pandora! What the hell happened post Guitar Hero II? These two ladies clearly took to snorting powdered substances and opted for a complete change in physical appearance and personality.

A little twittering bird tells us one of the people on the development team behind these characters was a gay lady.. till the Neversoft lot took over and decided the cool rock chicks needed an injection of the feminine (even stated in-game!). We mourn for Judy and Pandora, two cool girls with attitude that seem to have moved to a dimly lit street corner in Stepford, Connecticut, awaiting their next customer.

Lara Re\Visioned With Red Latex Henchwoman

If you're a fan of Lady Croft (and what self respecting lesbian isn't), this is for you. The final episode of GameTap's RE\Visioned Tomb Raider animated series is now live at their website. The episode 'A Complicated Woman' emphasizes Lara's... well ok, it emphasizes her breasts, but also her guile and sustainability, which is what we enjoyed about it, obviously!

Adding to the female quantity of this episode is a female katana wielding henchwoman in a skintight red latex bodysuit, which we hear is top of the winter fashion collection in HenchWoman Fashionista this month. The RE\Visioned Tomb Raider season featured 10 episodes in all. Season two has just been announced and will feature various Activision games heroes, including Pitfall Harry - a sort of male pixelated pre-cursor to the Croft.

Xbox Update & Carla Valenti

We're combining this news rather than drawing out two reports that are related. Firstly Carla Valenti, as female games characters go there are a few that stand out from the crowd and she is one of them. Carla appeared in the 2005 title Fahrenheit (aka Indigo Prophecy). How is this related to an Xbox Update? Well the looming December 4 update will include the ability to download original Xbox games. One of the games that will appear with the update is Fahrenheit (aka Indigo Prophecy).

If this somehow managed to pass you by, it's well worth a look. No Carla isn't a lesbian, but she is one cool kick ass female games character. Anyway her boxing scenes and white vest top and underwear scenes are bound to appeal to the tomboy in all of us. The original Xbox games will set you back around 1200 Points a piece. A little annoying given you may well be able to pick up a tangible copy for less in the sales bins. Fahrenheit is defnitely worth a look.

Lady Lara Croft in 2022

We're clever here at Lesbian Gamers, we can bend time and space like 'Hiro' and even hop into gamings parallel dimensions. We've done that especially for you and leapt into the year 2022 in the universe of Lady Lara Croft, to see what she's up to.

What's this? Lara is the president of Sarah Lawrence College - infamously rumored to be 'dyke central' at times. Lara lives on campus with her 'partner' Atlanta Blue, the head of the literature department and a lady who has similar alien routes to Lara - as an English woman living in New York. Apparently Lara has been resident at the College for 9 years, she has popular classes in Ancient History and Gender Studies. Needless to say she's extremely popular with both the boys and girls there, but her hands-on teaching style has occasionally perplexed some of the less liberal members of staff. Currently organizing a trip to the Catacombs of Paris for her class, Lara is hoping to find some original parchment of the Knights Templar.

As proof we're not yanking your chain, we took a screen capture of the parallel dimensions Sarah Lawrence College page. You can check it out HERE (thanks to ThumbBandits.com for hosting). Lara is looking goood for a 40 something teacher.

We'll be leaping forward on other female games character over the coming months, to see what they're up to in 15 - 20 years time. We hope you enjoy them.