There's a new article on Yahoo news that caught my eye. It said, How to get your girl (or guy) into games. The first thing that struck me, perhaps a bit unfairly, was they added the "(or guy)" in there. Admitingly, there probably are guys out there who don't play games, and their girlfriends do, and I may be going out on a limb here, but I think they're the extreme minority.

Anywho, the article is a very odd read, and it reads like the person who wrote it only had the most basic idea of what games were out there. It comes in 3 parts, the 360, the Wii and the PS3. The parts are rather puzzling, as the choices in games don't really have much in rhyme or reason, save a "witty" comment by the author.

The 360 list is the most puzzling, simply because there are better games out there to start a non-gamer on. They pick "Puzzle Quest" as the starter, and then, in a move that makes no sense, they jump froma 2D color-matching game to "Crackdown" a sandbox 3D free-roaming type of game. They defend this choice by saying that it's easy, and therefore will build up the confidence of your SO. While i can see that, Crackdown is a bit of a jump. Why not something simpler? But then again, I'm not a highly paid article writer, so what do I know? The list finishes off with, of course, Halo 3. This is the most confusing choice for me as there are tons of games out there to refine your skills before dropping you into the "lively" (to quote Yahtzee) playerbase of Xbox Live. The Co-op does help with Halo, but there are better ones all around.