Three Moves Ahead 48: The Gaming Gender Gap

This week, Troy and Tom welcome Lara Crigger, Jenn Cutter and Tiffany Martin to the show to talk about the gender gap in strategy gaming. Well, that’s where it starts. It turns into an almost 90 minute discussion of the place of women in gaming, their portrayal in games, the importance of peer groups, more <em>Brutal Legend</em> and the coming demographic shift. So less strategy wonkery than usual, but you guys can deal for a week, right? <a class="liexternal" href="http://cake-pie.com/">Tiffany Martin’s blog</a> <a class="liexternal" href="http://www.kombo.com/article.php?artid=13946">Tiffany’s thoughts on classes in Borderlands</a> <a class="liexternal" href="http://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/46221">Lara Crigger on her changing gaming habits</a> <a class="liexternal" href="http://www.laracrigger.com/">Hire Lara Crigger</a> <a class="liexternal" href="http://openalpha.tv/">Jenn Cutter’s Open Alpha</a> <a class="liexternal" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctfwPCschvI#t=1m47s">Jenn Plugs Flash of Steel and TMA and says nice things about me</a> <a class="liwikipedia" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_Princess_of_Marl%27s_Kingdom">Rhapsody</a> <a class="liwikipedia" rel="nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_Rasa_%28video_game%29">Tabula Rasa</a> <a class="liexternal" href="http://www.purepwnage.com/">Pure Pwnage</a> <a class="liexternal" href="http://wesnoth.org/">Battle for Wesnoth</a>