Gaming is for girls: video games for "Clueless" and "Mean Girls" are in the works

Great, more video games tailored to "girls." If the gaming industry really wants to inlcude the female players, they'll need to start listening to real live women, not the virtual ones that they dream about on screen. There's tons of female gamers, lesbian or not!

I think the moral of this recent press release is, don't make games for women if you have no intention on making it worth their dollar.

I think Clueless and Mean Girls as a game is a horrible idea. However.....Tomb Raider: Underworld looks pretty cool.

Are there really "tons" of female gamers? I personally don't know any females who play....or at least play regularly. I know there are groups like lesbian gamers and PMS but that's not really a lot. I think in the last 2 years of playing Halo 3 on xbox live I have only come across a handful of girls playing. What's the deal?

I'll pass on Clueless, Mean Girls, Hello Kitty Online and Pretty in Pink.  I mean, come on, really?

When I got my new phone there was a waitressing game on it.  I can't imagine that was created with men in mind.  Sad. 

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Ugh, this is exactly why female gamers gain so much criticism in the first place. Developers begin releasing ridiculously stereotypical games geared towards females, and it makes us all look like morons. @__@ I think it's fair to say 98% of female gamers would rather die than touch one of these games. Honestly, the thought of any of these games being released makes me want to vomit.

On a positive note, I cannot WAIT for Dead Rising to be released for the Wii! Oh, yeah, baby, chop till you drop indeed! I'm gonna have hours of fun with that game, hehehe.

 

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I love clueless & pretty in pink.......why??????????? This is the worst idea, it are probably going to be very limited games.

My first thoughts while reading this all related to whether or not you were going to jump out and say, in bold text, "April Fools!!!" It just sounds like a giant joke, which I guess explains my feelings about creating matchmaking video games, or games about high school escapades.

Also, I think Pretty in Pink and Clueless have kind of missed the video game boat... a lot of adolescents won't know the movies, and those of us who do (and either feel nostalgic toward them or weren't interested the first time 'round) are probably at the point where we don't have time to revert to high schoolish behaviours*.

*By high schoolish behaviours I mean setting up our virtual teachers/friends and spending our days worrying about what the virtual jocks, geeks and dropouts do on a daily basis... I'm not referring to gaming in general.

"There's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends." -Ani d.

Maybe there aren't that many female gamers that don't like first person shooters, but I have many friends who love RPG's, (role playing games). The whole Final Fantasy Series, Kingdom Hearts, Oblivion, Mass Effect, and many many others.

Personally, I enjoy first person shooters like the Quake Series, Gears of War, (mostly for the coop), Turok on Nintendo 64, C-12 (not very popular, but still awesome game on playstation). There's more, but I may bore everyone reading the post.

I would say to draw more female gamers they should create more games like Heavenly Sword and Tomb Raider where the star player is female. That being said, she should also not be made to look like a 14-year-old males wet dreams.

Well, I guess I don't mind scantilly clad video game characters, but for the sake of not making every women character an object, I would make them have just as many cool toys as the guys, and make them just as strong.

YAY!! I'd rather have some amy lee too! I think they should do a whole game about her! amy leeeeeee!!! haha

I think i just heard every fiber of my body scream "NOO!" in response to Clueless and Mean girls games, i would rather get my hands on resident evil 5 mm oh yes.

Dead rising: chop till you drop.. some one must have been reading my wishlist cause it sounds like a whole lotta awesome xD 

The Tomb raider trailer looks cool but when i saw it i was thinking "Is that leather pants Lara is wearing? must be hella hard to go archeology hunting with 'em on."  

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Well the Clueless and Mean Girls should be...interesting. Dead Rising and Tomb Raider look good... :)

Take a listen to "For the Love of God" and "Surfing the Alien". Satriani and Vai are big thumbs up if you like good ol' guitar solos. :)

Boo to Amy Lee and her over produced music.

And as for why women might not game as much... my theory is that females mature much quicker and by correlation don't find video games as appealing and tend to be drawn to their career, family, a more constructive hobby or doing more socialable things.

i'm not sure what kind of consumers they are directing with these games, (personally i believe girls no older than 10) but if video game creators really think that girls want to play a video game where you have to play cupid or bitch in hallways, i dont believe they have ever talked to girl gamer before.

 i for one dont mind the Tomb Raider trailer teaser, whether her pants were too low or not. :P

 who am i kidding, thats exactly what i hoped for. *sigh*

Tomb Raider looks awesome, but the new Dead Rising title for Wii? No thank you, the first one drove me to my grave.

 

 

"Spontaneous and almost combustible."

I'm not gonna lie, that 'Mean Girls' games sounds kinda fun(ny). I can only hope it'll be similar to Rockstar's "Bully", however, movie-oriented games have a tendency to be rather low in gaming quality...

But I can only imagine the fun things the game implies. I love the idea of playing as a student in a school-setting. Pulling pranks on other students, saying inCREDIBLY mean things and getting away with it, and facing Regina George in a boss battle (but you win in the end cause she gets hit by a bus xD ) And if were lucky, we might get a lesbian cut scene, just like the two girls making out at the halloween dance party! =D Well...Maybe not, but still it'd be fun to imagine!

As for the clueless game...*shudders* I dunno...Maybe if an option to try and 'catch' a girl was available, then I'd be all over it like a Harvest Moon/Sims game...The main character is adoringly cute though...

if a video game has neither power chords, a la guitar hero, nor moderate violence, then i'm afraid i'm not too interested.  :)

the mean girls game sounds kind of similar to bully.  i didn't like bully too much . . . .

but i swear i'm not the mean, violent type.  i only like moderate violence.  nothing too bloody or gory, but something that at least gives one the opportunity to punch, kick, throw, or throttle the enemy to the death.

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well i would like the mean girls video game since i lover lindsay lohan; as a result, ill totally play as her.

when will people learn that movie turned video games are a bad idea? the only good movie turned video to come out was goldeneye 007 for N64 and that was a loooooong time ago

though i gotta say, it'd be funny if they make the mean girls game into something like no more heroes. hehe imagine lindsay riding a motorcyle and slicing people up with a katana