Cahiers du Jeu Video 04 - Girl Power ( Pix N Love Edition )

Girls don't like violence, they play the Wii and they're not as strong as guys...raquo;, here's what the average geek thinks of a woman who dares to intrude on his territory.A stickler for detail, our Sunday hobbyist is more than happy to stick to his body-built marines, blue-jeans-clad vigilantes and other vengeful princes. And saving a princess from mutants is obviously less risky than giving up his little sister.Well, fed up with male arrogance, Les Cahiers du Jeu Vidéo have decided to give the power to the girls. Not all the power, don't go overboard! But it was enough to explode the prejudices, and put the question of gender in video games back on the table.From Bayonetta and World of Warcraft to the survival horror worlds of Jane Jensen, from the games industry to the world of the internet, we take a look at some of the most popular video games in the world.As the specialist press has shown, girls are omnipresent in video games. Far from being as seductive as they're made out to be, female characters can be a source of either dread or maternal rejection: their shadowy presence underpins many a game design and, above all, shows that male foundations are more fragile than we might have imagined.With a mix of in-depth analysis, interviews with industry players (developers, dubbers, journalists), hagiography and pamphlet, anecdotes and grand theories, this issue brings to light the tensions that run through the industry;ro unearths the tensions that run through femininity and masculinity, and invites the industry to explore them by renewing its conventions rather than wallowing in statist rhetoric.