According to Bethesda same-sex marriage in game isn’t a big deal, so they’ve not really thought to mention it before someone on Twitter asked them directly. The question was posed: “Is same sex marriage in Skyrim? I know the option to get married to ppl is in. The subject seems like hush...

We’ve been checking out Fallout New Vegas female character Veronica Renata Santangelo, a Brotherhood of Steel Scribe who can be found at the 188 Trading Post in 2281. What’s interesting about veronica is, we’re told she’s a lesbian (though the wiki suggests she’s could be bi)....

That’s Fort Gay, which is a real town in West Virginia. The gamer, 26 year old Josh Moore, not gay himself, just innocently put he lived in Fort Gay and before he knew it had his account suspended. Moore contact Microsoft Xbox ‘customer services’ to explain he really did live in Fort Gay...

I’ve been thinking about the lack of gay characters in video games and how utterly annoying it is that developers don’t try and make their games a more immersive experience by adding characters of depth that in some manner represent the color of society. It seems that gay characters in video...

A game released in 2002 is in the headlines this week because it urges the player to shoot gay men before they ‘rape’ the player. Various gay groups are up in arms over “Watch Out Behind You” a web based game written by Frenchman Stéphane Aguie and hosted on Georgian website...

The lovely Kate tips us off to this article at GamePlayer which discusses Gays in Gaming. Writer Stuart Clarke does a nice job of looking at a few older games in which bisexual or gay characters were eradicated for audiences outside of Japan. The article then nicely covers how perhaps the closet door is...

Online network site Kombo has an interesting article up at the moment that poses the question “Are Games Gay Enough?”. After an incidental side mission in Fable II, writer – and gamer – Brad began to wonder about “the state of homosexual characters in today’s...

Firstly apologies for no posts end of last week, LG HQ lost its net connection. All is well now though and here we are back to business. Gaywired has an interesting article up by Laura Vess about playing Eve Online and being a lesbian gamer. Vess openly discusses her own experiences as a lesbian gamer in...

The Apple iPhone is – unexpectedly – taking off as a games machine. We got to thinking about what this might mean for gay and lesbian gamers and particularly how the open market of iPhone Application development and dispersal might affect gay content in games. Is the iPhone just waiting for a bunch of...