Brit Women Get Their Game On

Who said girls made lousy gamers?

According to this article from BBC, quoting researcher Aleks Krotoski's white paper, a quarter of the gamers in the UK are women!

"The typical female gamer in the UK is 30 to 35-years-old, plays around seven hours a week and spends £170 (250 euros) a year on games, Ms Krotoski found."

Now if that's not a cause for celebration, I don't know what is. Of course there are differences in the types of games a woman would like to play, most prominently in the fact than women like games they can just pick up and play versus more complicated ones. This doesn't mean they're only into Bejeweled or Barbie's Horse Adventures, however. The article cites that among favourites are games like Final Fantasy, Legend of Zelda, Colin McRae's Rally, Prince of Persia and The Sims, which more than anything shows off how diverse this group actually is.

For those of you still in the UK, check out two trade fests in the London area ECTS and EGN while GameStars live (which is more accessible to the public) will be on at the Excel centre in the Docklands.

Here's hoping we get more of you female gamers around.
Cheers!