On that note, portal does not feature non-violent conflict resolution, you are threatened with hilarious death on a number of occasions. Also so many companion cubes are charred to a crisp. They’re sentient you know, they just have a lot of them.

I will agree that it does feature a kick-ass mostly female cast.

As a ‘girl gamer’ I wholeheartedly agree with your article. Thanks for the fabulous video. That long, long list of games really hammers the point home.

1. On every level, each species was hell-bent on killing every other species. There is no alternative mode of interaction, despite all three being intelligent and motivated by self-preservation.

2. The human “marine” skins are male: the Alien franchise without a female human lead? WTF?

Can anyone tell me whether this is this is case in all subsequent AVP games?

I like this article on the whole, but there is one problem with the soundtrack to the video: it equates “phalli” with “men.” As a queer woman, I know many women with dicks, be they strap-ons, packers, or the fleshy ones they were born with (or, in one case, a strap-on made from a mould of the one she had prior to surgery). And I don’t see any of them in video games.

The juxtaposition of the lyrics, all about how “too many dicks” make it “hard to meet chicks” with an example of one (among many) male-dominate social arena (gaming) also reminds me of how so frequently there is the complaint that women don’t take part in x-aspect of our culture. But then when it is pointed out how hostile that aspect of our culture is to women, the hostility is defended as “fantasy” or “escapism” or otherwise justified.