GGTL: Mother Lover: The need for more strong mothers in gaming

Gamer's Guide to Life.com, Friday 6th May 2011: With Mother's Day just around the corner (for Americans), GGTL writer Andrew Testerman both examines why such a drought of strong, maternal characters in game industry exists and stresses why that needs to change, citing strong motherly characters from the Metal Gear Solid series as examples of how the character type can be done well.

GGTL: "The masculine-centric landscape of today’s AAA risk-free franchises make it difficult to find a new, compelling way to write a motherly character, but perhaps the downloadable space will provide additional takes on this important character archetype. Certainly with all of the brothers, sisters, fathers, sons, daughters, and grandparents featured in games today, there could be room at the table for dear old mum."