Gaming News Roundup – Where’s Galactrix, new Wii Controller, Aliens canned and more

Gaming News Roundup – Where’s Galactrix, new Wii Controller, Aliens canned and more Here's your gaming news roundup for the week. We've left out the whole hoo harr over the Xbox Live banning of Teresa, because we'll no doubt be covering that further in the coming week. We don't want to go over the top with it, as it is but one bit of news in a sea of gaming. Essentially we...
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Xbox Live Gamertags – Bannings Sexuality and Context article

Xbox Live Gamertags – Bannings Sexuality and Context article We’ve been looking into the issue of sexuality on Xbox Live, particularly in gamertags and written a small article about it. The whole issue is one that is wrapped in confusion and hypocrisy. We’re still throwing together that open letter to MS and will probably post a draft over the weekend (as...
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Xbox Live’s GayGate scandal – A look at the problem of context with gamertags

We posted yesterday regarding ‘Teresa’, a lesbian gamer stating she was banned from Xbox Live after she was harassed by other players. The whole thing managed to get a lot of peoples panties in a twist, including us here at Lesbian Gamers. As we stated then, we are in the midst of getting a...
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Lesbian gamer banned from Live for stating she’s gay

Secret Diary of a Lesbian Gamer has an interesting piece up about the banning of a lesbian on the Xbox Live service. According to the gamer in question she was banned for having ‘lesbian’ in her bio information. She was harassed and eventually it was she that was banned as opposed to those...
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The Xbox 360 Elite Red Ring of Death [RRoD] Saga part 1

The Xbox 360 Elite Red Ring of Death [RRoD] Saga part 1 Well after work today I decided to try and start the process of sorting out my beloved Xbox 360 Elite and its Red Ring of Death. I decide rather than phoning MS Support (previous bad experiences tainted this for me) I will do the online service request. See how it goes below… We head over to...
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Xbox 360 Elite gets RRoD (Red Ring of Death) at Lesbian Gamers HQ

It had to happen, after over 3 years of none of our Xbox 360′s gaining the dreaded Red Ring of Death, today our main reviewing machine, the Elite has done just that. The death took place at approximately 9.55am whilst trying to add MS points to download the new Tomb Raider content for...
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Gay Girls Who Game – Season 3 Episode 3 [47] The Gaming Oscars Special

Gay Girls Who Game – Season 3 Episode 3 [47]  The Gaming Oscars Special The Gaming Academy Awards are upon us and Gay Girls Who Game have all the categories and nominees tucked away in pretty golden envelopes. You can check out Gay Girls Who Game episode 3.3 The Video Gaming Oscars – that’s season 3 episode 3, or if you like nice round numbers, that’s episode...
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Zoey in Left 4 Dead the “Lesbian Rambo”

Seems it’s not only us here at LesbianGamers.com who have considered the thought that Zoey from Left 4 Dead could be a lady lover. The interesting Left 4 Dead Game Diary by Ryan Rigney over at slapstic.com pays homage to the lovely Zoey, likening her to a ‘Lesbian Rambo’. The great thing...
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Mass Effect 2 trailer – Commander Shepard, say it ain’t so?!

Heads up all Mass Effect fans, the first teasing trailer for Mass Effect 2 is out and it is a doozy! Looking at this from a gender angle, it is nice to see the trailer lacks full visibility of the ‘male’ Shepard of the original title, thus leaving the mind open to the possibility of the female...
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Flower – Full Written Review

Flower – Full Written Review How does one review a game that isn’t a game, but more of an interactive poem, that, in the words of the developer, exploits “the tension between urban bustle and natural serenity”. Well, we’re not really sure there’s a specific skill in it, but we’ll give it a...
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Female lead in Dead Space Extraction for the Wii?

We liked Dead Space more than a little here at the LG, as our review attests. Great news then that the same studio has finally shed some light on “Dead Space: Extraction”, the Wii spinoff. Apparently the main character will be female, but on reading the presser it sounds like perhaps it’s...
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