congrats to the girl who won. she is def a little young looking. she looks about 12, but hopefully her talents will compensate for that.

does she have any talents?

Shoko-tan wants her meme back.

So that's it? I thought they had to compete or something after the voting round. contest sucks and blows at the same time

There's no easy reply that doesn't make me sound like a sexist pig or an oaf.

Basically, you don't have to try to be sexy to be a girl gamer. If you wanna cram controllers in your mouth, fine, but that's a totally different part of my brain/anatomy you're trying to please.

Being a girl gamer should not predispose you to have to be sexy all the time, lay around naked with NES carts on your cooter and bewbs, or have to have you suckling a Wii-mote in the least subtle manner.

I'd think that if you want to do the sexy-sexy thing with your video games, go right ahead, but it doesn't make me add you to my friends list on that basis alone.

When I'm playing games and I run into a girl gamer, if she wants to impress me, she needs to be able to play games, not look vapid yet sexy. That other part is totally unrelated to gaming. Any girl who has a gaming BF/significant other surely realizes that when us guys are gaming, we are not paying attention to them, so trying to intrinsically tie the two together, for me personally, does very little to knock my socks off.

*rolls eyes* What a waste of time.

i'm all for womanizing but when they use video games to taint the age-old sport, it's horrible
where the fuck are the pictures of her playing? it's just picture of her posing with game shit

i think dvddesign says it all...although personally, i'd pay my girlfriend to lay around naked with nes carts on her cooter and bewbs.

well, the secret is that guys actually really like whores, and that being called a slut really isn't an insult, which explains why men drape their rooms with sluts.

so slut around all you want :)

I tend to go for chicks who put controllers in their mouths. But you already knew that :)

Hmmm, there is a "gamer girl" *shutter* who lives near me who looks like that who is incredibly stuck up. I didn't see where she lived so I don't know. If it is her, G4 = dead.

I really, really don't like "Girl Gamers" cause it is like, "Let's put me on a pedestal so I can tell everyone how totally not different I am than you."

Something about that just rubs me in the wrong way.

Psh, she's not even that attractive, and she got killed by crabs in Morrowind? LEARN 2 PLAY

Wookie wins 2 internets. Congrats.

I'm with blehman, that RPG line is Epic.

Also, I'm stealing it. Thanks.

Hmm, here is her gamercard.


http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=Bunnyxablaze


For someone who seems to be pushing thats shes a hardcore shooter player, she doesn't have a whole lot of achievements in GOW, COD4, Halo3, or Bioshock and she hasn't even played Orange Box from what I can see.


Yeah, sounds like shes a real passionate gamer to me. *rolls eyes*

I didn't look at the contest and don't really want to—it would just upset me and I'd have to come back here and make a long comment about it.

I just wanted to say a couple of things:

1) Maybe the majority of boys do have huge posters of cars with bikini-clad girls on the hood pinned up in their room, but I wouldn't know. I had a roommate like that once and I hated the guy. None of my friends have been those sorts of people. I think there is a definite market for realistic portrayals of women in videogames. (This really deserves a blog post . . . check back in a week!)

2) I just watch G4 for the Japanese shows, but Attack of the Show comes on afterwards as I'm drifting off and I leave it for the background noise. I've caught a few bits with Blaire Butler and she really seems to know her stuff. Unlike Olivia Munn, that Cheat! girl, or . . . ugh . . . Morgan Webb . . . she seems to get air time for the right reasons, and it's not because she can look pretty while reading cue cards. She's the only girl on that channel that I really give a damn about, and it's sad that instead of promoting someone like her they're hiring the "prettiest" MySpace girl they can find. How cheesy.

And why MySpace? Seriously, what the fuck? To be on what was formerly TechTV, shouldn't it be a prerequisite that you have more of a web presence than a MySpace profile? Anything would be better! A YouTube series with a following (one you acquired before become famous on G4), a personal website you coded yourself, maybe hire female game developer . . . you know, something!.

"I worked at GameStop for about a year and a half."

End of fucking story.

Beauty contests generally make me sick to my stomach.

It's usually a collection of individuals who have no problem in objectifying and commodifying their own bodies. When you do this you stop being a person and start being someone else's product.

I hope she's real proud of herself...

I like to look at boobs and heinies as much as the next guy, but I'm sick of that seemingly being the sole selling point for these people. I do not want or need a model-caliber woman talking to me about video games on TV. I want someone who has good on-screen presence and knows what the hell they're doing/talking about. Morgan Webb may be pretty (shut up), but she grates on me to no end. Olivia Munn may be brain-bendingly hot, but she sounds like a bitch and isn't much of a gamer.

However, since the majority of male gamers think with their dicks, and a fair number of female gamers take advantage of this for attention, this is the bullshit we're stuck with. Gamers are more to blame for it than G4, I think.

Tiff, let's build a big ol' tree-fort, form a club, and exclude all the assholes, k?

Ahh, an 18 year old Xbox fanatic. Good to see G4 is broadening its horizons :)

Other than that, no, I have no issue with this. As someone pointed out above, G4 did hire Blair Butler who is an honest to god nerd through and through, so maybe they'll come through again.

@pheonix-blood

Whomever they hire for the male to appear on the show better not be a poser either, that's all I'm saying.

Why the hell would I get game related news and info from someone that apparently has only a passing interest in it?

that's why I come to dtoid. I know you people at least have a passion for what you do.

i dont have a problem with this. i like attractive girls. their video gaming skills matter not to me. vaginas win.

@wdsnizek

Can you point me to where you get the idea she's anywhere near as passionate about it as any of the girls here?

She's a poser who was obviously hired for her T&A and not her knowledge about games. I thought that was pretty apparent.

The replies you've gotten to this post are really distressing to me. A lot of things said here, whether "ironically" or in earnest, are awful!

The pretention displayed in automatically considering anyone who presents themselves in a sexualized manner a, somehow, less-than-serious gamer, is completely bunk. As far as I'm aware, a guy who doesn't put any effort into his appearance is given pretty much precisely as much worth by game consumers as one who puts a lot of effort in; the fact that this doesn't translate to women is fucking appalling to me. The uppity behaviour displayed by "REAL gamers" never seems more biting than it is towards women, either. I mean, yeah, Castlevania is a great game, but if you've never played one but consider yourself a gamer, the general reaction is "What?! You have to play it!" if you're a man, and "You're a fucking fraud skank!" if you're a woman. There's SO much dismissal in this industry of women for being women by people who don't even realize they're doing it, it drives me mental.

Prefacing ANY comment by saying that you might be considered chauvinist for your opinions is pretty chauvinist in and of itself-- it has this "us vs. them" mentality that I just can't comprehend. It completely misses the point. Look at the issue by wondering, "how can we, as a group, make this group accessable and friendly to everyone?", instead of wondering "how can we, as men, make this group accessable and friendly for women?" and you'll look at the issue in a much more constructive way. Similarly, thinking "I am more interested in a girl's opinion than her looks" is a lot more destructive than thinking "I am more interested in a person's opinion than their gender." Is this making sense at all?

Argh, and the casual sexism displayed in at least half of the above posts is so much of the problem-- there are two amazing ways to hide being a shitty person, though; one, is by saying "it's just a joke" and just referencing the sarcasto-nerd culture as your reason for being a shithead. Second, burning anyone who dares call people out on it as being a wet blanket who doesn't get a joke-- it's nuts!

I do have hope, though; sites like gaygamer.net are making inroads for queer gamers, in my opinion. Hopefully some good gamer blogs with a positive, feminist-friendly perspective can gain some traction in the new media sphere. As far as this G4 thing goes, I don't really know why anyone's shocked that a television show would have a presenter whose skills are in presenting; do you people think Pat Sajak and Vanna White were, like, REALLY INTO WORD PUZZLES? I just have a huge issue with the clear and casual sexism that gets thrown around by so many people on both sides of the fence about contests like this.

@sharpless
"However, since the majority of male gamers think with their dicks, and a fair number of female gamers take advantage of this for attention, this is the bullshit we're stuck with. Gamers are more to blame for it than G4, I think."

Quoted for emphasis. If the vast majority of gamers that watch G4 wanted a knowledgeable female gamer I kinda doubt it would be this chick. Most think with their dicks as you said. Its kinda sad and not surprising that this happened. I'm not saying she isn't qualified I'm saying that I'm sure there was someone with more knowledge that would have been better. And all this was just a voting contest right? No on screen airtime before voting? Kinda stupid if thats the way it went down.

I know you have to fit a certain "attractiveness" level to be on TV most times but I just feel this 16 year old girl wasn't the right choice. I know a few female gamers that are more attractive and have been gaming longer than this chick has been alive. Glad I don't get G4, and I'm not sure I'd watch it anyway.