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Girl gamers may soon top the leaderboard

Which? Convo: The stereotype of a ‘gamer’ has long been the young man holed away in his bedroom, playing games in the dark for hours on end by himself. Yet, new research has found that we might be smashing the stereotype.

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FriedGoat4116d ago

I hate that they bring facebook games into this. Playing facebook games does not make you a gamer. That's like calling someone who plays monopoly and Jenga alot a gamer.

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jessupj4116d ago

I like to ask the question, does playing the occasional gold round make you a professional golfer?

I'm sick of these servers putting casual and hardcore players in the same demographic.

DFresh4116d ago

Topping leader boards is a waste of time and not worthy of an accomplishment in life.
How many people are even legit anymore on the leader boards anymore with all of the hacking/boosting/glitching going on in video games today?
Show me something that's legit that put in the hours to get good, played the legit way without cheating, isn't using the most overpowered b.s in a game and that isn't playing in a modded lobby.
Until someone can show me that I don't believe that the people in the top leader boards are even legit.

Murad4116d ago

Well, I know the Dark Souls Ps3 board I believe is legit, along with some others on Steam.

jessupj4116d ago

I got a lot of BS lag kills, so I wouldn't call Dark Souls legit, per se'

Murad4115d ago

@jessupj
True, I do agree with your statement, I myself have been in that same state more than a couple of time. However, I do find it somewhat fair under the circumstance that at least it's not on a fully hacked and destroyed server where people can insta-kill you any time and anywhere.

anime_swag_pro4116d ago

Leader boards are important until the girls start heading up there. Suddenly they don't matter at all.

madjedi4116d ago

No they matter to the guys that like to stroke their e-penis and apparently the chicks that stroke their e-clit. They are both equals and both shallow if they obsess about it.

To a majority of us(generalizing) gamers, it's not really a big deal if it's a female gamer or a male one. Since it is the SKILL of the gamer your celebrating not the damn gender.

So the whole rah rah girl gamers power, females can play games to speeches ect. is tired and annoying.

Congradulations to the female gamers on leaderboards, here is your cookie now go away, k thx bye.

We are supposed to be gamers regardless of gender, but by all means continue to segregate yourselves. It will only make integration take that much longer to achieve.

Some people just love to stir up drama.

Athonline4116d ago

I know lots of young women who play video games really WELL. Even in my raiding guild in WoW, we had a part-time model... Stereotypes that only boys play games belong back to the 90s.

BanBrother4116d ago

Oh yeah, what did she model as? An orc? Lol I kid, I really do. My sister plays wow and she was the best warlock on her server. She got lots of crap in raids, where they used teamspeak. She let her skill do the talking.

I think this article, or at least the heading is misleading. My mother plays 'games' on her gadget, as she likes to call it. It's funny, as she would never put herself in the same category as someone like me, who buys retail boxed games, but analysts and such are very quick to try and make a correlation or connection between the two.

In fact, people (like my mother for instance) who play a touch screen mini-game on an iPhone are the polar-opposite of what I consider a
gamer.

Athonline4115d ago

Her main was a NE Druid.

Yeah. I was talking about "real" games. From CoD to DOTA/LoL/Starcraft...

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai8h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken8h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye6h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken5h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno3h ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

porkChop2h ago

The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.

Chocoburger3h ago

Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.

Par for Bethesda.

Aussiesummer1h ago

It's not a remaster, it's a next gen update.

badz1491h ago

LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?

Profchaos1h ago(Edited 1h ago)

The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.

A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC

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Gears of War Voice Actor Hints At New Game Announcement Coming In June

A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.

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Ra30302h ago

Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.

Sciurus_vulgaris1h ago

The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .

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Honkai Star Rail's Revival Tendencies Take Away the Seriousness of Character Deaths

While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.

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