"The EB Games Expo this year had two cosplay competitions in attendance, one for the more casual crowd and the big main one that was held at the end of the show. In this article we’ll be taking a look at the Just Cos cosplay competition which was the more casual contest held in the Homegrown Pavilion on a stage behind the Madman booth." - Capsule Computers
"Alright, on to part three. Here’s another lot of great aussie games I had the luck to check out in person during my EB Expo adventure." - Mark Isaacson
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"At this year’s EB Expo in Sydney there were a huge variety of attendees who took the opportunity to dress as their favourite gaming character.
My favourite though, and I admit I’m totally biased toward anything Assassin’s Creed, was Clare Costigan (The Vixen Gamer)’s effort- the female assassin version of Ezio.
From spending $400 on that outfit, to zombie novels, stick-thin models and salacious fantasies about Ezio, Clare gives an refreshingly honest insight into her motivations for cosplay and the whole female gaming world.
It may just change your mind about the myth of the ‘girl gamer’ and about cosplay as a ‘geeky’ pursuit."
Hadn't really thought about the transition from traditional modelling to cosplay before. Definitely interesting some interesting thoughts from Ms Costigan...
I admit, when I first saw the subject matter for the interview, I was tempted to roll my eyes.
But it was a pleasant surprise to see that the interviewer asked interesting questions, and stayed away from the 'softball', patronizing questions that most usually ask in such situations.
I don't agree with her views on objectification of women in games. And I have to wonder why she's put off by the obsession for women to be unhealthily skinny in modeling, but doesn't have the same problem about the portrayal of women in games. She may liken her body to Lara Croft's, but the truth of the matter is that Lara's body wasn't really anatomically possible; it's the same unreasonable expectation that modeling is rife with.
But that all being said, she's quite well spoken, and I can definitely understand the crux of her points. Nice interview.
Good on her. Being a female interested in gaming shouldn't carry any negative stigma.
"I want to briefly tell you a little bit about me before I go knee deep into what I saw at EB Expo 2012 this past weekend. Way back when, before writing was my lot in life, I was a budding IT student studying for what I hoped was a future career either in web design or video game development. For some reason I had in my head a dream of building my own games, though little did I know what I was actually getting myself into." - Mark Isaacson
