technoculture203-09

I believe there is a strong gender difference in online gaming. I find most of my male friends almost all of them play some kind of online games during the day, in the evening and some all night long. Most of them usually play these games in the internet cafes where many of whom are related players in that place. It is a world for them to interact and compete with each other. It can be seen similar to females enjoying and continuously upgrading their profiles on their social networking sites like Myspace. I think movies and games share a lot in common. They entertain us and allow us to escape reality for the briefest of times, or make us dwell on ideas we may never have pondered before. But unlike movies games make us (particularly referring to boys) part of their world. They get the chance to take the role controlling the chosen characters and allow them to share in its greatest moments. But why does people find it disturbing when a girl decides to play this sort of games.. Like now the Diablo3 introduced female character allowed to be chosen for their future heroes. I think this has got something to do with the concern that girls trying to compete with boys are seen unequal? Hence saying this is not a real competitive game for the males? I believe there shouldn’t be a gender difference in online games because these days more and more females are participating in these games and even some of my female friends are actually enjoy playing these games regularly and I find now the boys are actually getting used to them playing with them and forget the idea of gender whilst playing the game.