If you’re in the mood to pick up some more games, check out Game online. All purchases between now and the 31st October will be entered into a competition for one winner per day to be picked, to win the whole basket for £5. There will be a draw each day. The winner will receive they’re whole basket for £5 no matter the value. The terms and conditions also don’t state if any product is excluded, meaning you could buy the console you’ve been looking to get now and have a chance of winning it for a fiver!
Or if you’re waiting till pay day, or don’t fancy purchasing anything you can still enter. You can send a postcard into Game, telling them what games you’d get, up to the value of £200 (there isn’t a maximum purchase price) and you’ll be entered into the daily draw.
For a limited time only, a “femme fatale” fightstick is available to purchase from GameShark. The fightstick brings in a pink and white casing along with the ladies of Street Fighter IV. Only 1000 are being made, distributed between the PS3 and Xbox 360. The PS3 will receive 350 while the 360 gets 650. The fightstick will work with most fighting games. The 360 version will also work on PC fighting games that support 360 controllers.
The Femme Fatal fightstick is currently retailing for $159.99 from GameShark.
The competition is over for the Girl Gamers Steam Group avatar and a winner has now been picked from all the entries.
Congrats to .xDizzy whose entry you see below.
Well the time’s come for the winner of the Steam group avatar competition to be decided. All members of the Girl Gamers steam group can vote for their favourite entry. Head on over to the voting thread to make your vote.
We’ve now got our very own group for GirlGamers.co.uk on Steam. You can join the group here.
As the group is new, we’re looking for an avatar for the group and we’re running it as a competition. The competition for an avatar will end June 30th and will be judged by the group members. The winner will receive a game worth £20 ($30).
The competition is being held on GamerStyle.com, where you can submit your entry and view the rules of the competition.
A recent article on the Official Xbox Magazine website has interestingly revealed that videogame girlfriends never seem to make it to the end of a game alive. By the way, if you’re planning on clicking the link to the article, be aware that there are possible spoilers.
It is true though, but why? Why can’t the girlfriend survive to the very end of a game? In most games, if she dies early on, the boyfriend usually goes on a revenge killing spree, taking down anybody who may have been involved in her death…but surely this is getting too reptitive now? A little boring maybe? Is it pointless even having girlfriends in the story if all they’re going to do is die! It would be great if the girlfriend turned out to be some ninja specialist and made sure nobody tried to get the better of her.
What do you think?
‘The Market for Computer and Video Games (MCV)’ recent research has revealed that the average salary for women working in the UK games industry is £33,260 per year, which is £2,000 higher than an average male salary working in the same industry.
Since joining up here and interacting with several other girl gamers, I have learnt that I’m not the only female who can sit and play a game for hours on end and enjoy that feeling of accomplishment when you finally finish a game. It’s common knowledge that the gaming industry and all things game related is a mans world. But what I’m writing about today is how being a girl gamer can sometimes cause problems when playing online. I’ll also be sharing afew of my experiences of being a girl gamer.
Well it’s time to reflect on who won what at this years 26th Golden Joystick Awards. This years awards saw a phenominal 856,262 voters, lets hope your vote counted. Any guesses as to what did the best? I’ll give you a clue, it starts with a letter ‘C’ and ends in ‘all of Duty 4′. Yep, Activisions COD4 picked up four awards including UK ESA PC Game of the Year. Not only that, the next title in the COD series, ‘World at War’ is tipped to be the one to watch next year. Take a look below at all the winners for 2008.
The highly anticipated ‘Rock Band 2′ will hit Xbox 360’s on November 21st 2008. Harmonix have announced that it is to start shipping the game in Europe on 14th November. The cost of the ‘Rock Band 2′ software will be £49.99, but standalone hardware will be available at the beginning of December.