Posted by Lesbian Gamers on 09 1st, 2010

Posted by Lesbian Gamers The new silver Xbox 360 controller that’s been floating around in rumorville for a few days has been confirmed by Microsoft. Major Nelson releases a video detailing the device that launches November 9 in the US and around February everywhere else. The new controller features a ‘patented’ twist and raise D-Pad (woo) and the button colors have changed to shades of...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers Heads up Dragon Age: Origins fans, looks like your Morrigan dreams will soon be a reality. BioWare has released details about the next DLC for the game titled: Dragon Age: Origins. “Witch Hunt”. The DLC will be available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 from September 7 at a cost of 560 Microsoft Points / BioWare Points (expect the same conversion for PS3). Official...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers Heads up Mass Effect 2 fans and more importantly Liara T’Soni fans, we’ve got a date for the upcoming Mass Effect 2 downloadable content “The Lair of the Shadow Broker”, which features Mass Effect 1 favorite Liara T’Soni as a party member. The new DLC is set to launch on PC and Xbox 360 September 7. Dependent on platform it will set you back a mere...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers Oh dear lord, why oh why! Whilst checking out a game I was truly looking forward to, I came across this sexist drivel. Yes when you pre-order upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 game “Enslaved: Odyssey To The West” you too can get “Sexy Robot Trip”. This is essentially the female character of Trip, dressed in slinky ‘robot’ wear. This is even more...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers You know we like covering female characters here at Lesbian Gamers, so here with are with another. Meet Kit Ballard, a bounty hunter working in Hollow Wish… your typical lawless frontier on the surface, but this mysterious shell planetoid is filled with dark secrets and cloaked figures. It’s here Kit Ballard works as one of the best bounty hunters in the business. Don’t...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers Figured with all the Fable fans we have around here this would be of interest. This October, “Fable” fans will get the chance to control their own destiny in “Fable III” with the stunning new “Fable III” Limited Edition Wireless Controller for Xbox 360. The golden cloaked controller features one-of-a-kind artwork created by Lionhead Studios and is steeped in “Fable”...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers Samus Aran is iconic enough that I doubt I really need to go into the back story of the bounty hunter who doesn’t actually do much bounty hunting or really explain too in depth the various events of the game. The most astonishing and wonderful thing about Samus was how she was originally conceived and not necessarily how she was presented. Samus’s original design was...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers Not sure what to make of this, but it came via Twitter and email with a suggestion we cover it here, so here we are. Cliffy B, or Cliff Bleszinski is of course the guy behind Gears of War, one of the more overly macho game franchises on store shelves today. Color us surprised today when we were sent to a site with the tattoo you see below and we assume Cliffy B leaving his comment...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers Heads up Borderlands fans the next DLC add-on pack for Borderlands is now official. Claptraps New Robot Revolution is due out September for Xbox Live (800 points), PSN and PC. We’ve got the whole press release below for your delight and delectation, because that’s how we roll when we are pushed for time! 2K Games and Gearbox Software announced today that Borderlands...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers Our pal TheFremen has written a really interesting article over at his blog and we thought we’d highlight it here. The article titled: “In the grim future of Starcraft 2, there is only war (and EXTREMELY rigid gender roles)” looks at Starcraft 2 and the gender roles within the games framework. The article examines those female characters that are present and how...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers Wow looks like fans of StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty haven’t been disappointed with its release, at least if review scores are anything to go by. We’ve taken a brief look at what some of the review sites have said about this title and it ranges from “one of the richest and most expertly produced video games of recent years” [VideoGamer] to “production...

Posted by Lesbian Gamers We saw this via a link on Facebook and thought it was pretty awesome. Over at Geekosystem they’ve got a special up that looks at contemporary game titles and what they might have looked like if they were released 20 or so years ago. The results are clever and well done and we thought if you’d missed it, you might like to pop over there and give it a look. We used our...