Posted by Female Gamers on 08 3rd, 2011

Posted by Female Gamers Sometimes a successful publisher can face a particularly tough dilemma, and it is this: it releases a title that is met with critical acclaim and then it needs to follow that acclaim with something even better. If it’s not bettered, then the new title will be bagged—even if it’s amazing as a standalone game. This is pretty much where we find ourselves with Activision’s...

Posted by Female Gamers With driving games aplenty does Burnout 3: Takedown offer the gamer anything new in the genre? Let’s take a look…. It’s not often a game comes along that has you cackling with joy or giving loud ‘Oh Yeahs!’ as you gleefully complete another task / section. Burnout 3 had this particular reviewer doing just that at times for up to 6 hour stretches, something unheard of...

Posted by Female Gamers For those of us who are avid Cthulhu fans, this title couldn’t come fast enough and that was never going to be a problem as it slipped like a Deep One out of Innesmouth bay. There came a point when I actually thought this was never going to see the light of day, but finally it arrived, albeit to some sort of hushed Lovecraftian milieu. Call of Cthulhu Dark corners of the Earth...

Posted by Female Gamers Into each generation a slayer is born. Buffy has found her way to the Xbox and it’s your turn to take on the role of slayer and kick some vampire ass. After numerous rumored outings in the world of consoles it was starting to seem as if Buffy would never find it’s way to any platform, that is until Microsoft stepped in and brought dreams of playing with Buffy to life...

Posted by Female Gamers Cooking Mama was released on the Nintendo DS and brought something different to the handheld gaming genre. Cooking Mama: Cook Off is essentially the same game, with a changed up gameplay mechanic due to the Nintendo WiiMote controller. The premise of the game is simple enough, under the tutelage of Cooking Mama you will follow a recipe, including all food preparation and try and...

Posted by Female Gamers Town of Genovia, where the streets are paved with gold, where, it is said, if you work hard everyone can get the ‘Genovian Dream’, a nice house in the burbs and basically the good life. As Watson sat in the cab on her way to Genovia, she thought “I have a good feeling about this town” and she was right. No sooner had she stepped foot on Genovian soil than Tom Nook, local...

Posted by Female Gamers Every once in a while a female gaming hero comes along that makes you proud to be a gamer. Not since Lara Croft has such a cool female gaming hero appeared. Nariko in the PS3 title Heavenly Sword is one such character and she’s what the Honorary Oakley is all about. So for the month of October, we celebrate Nariko, warrior, cool chick, sword wielder and...

Posted by Female Gamers Reviewing games is an interesting lot, particularly when it comes to the ‘hype’ factor. BioShock was laced with praise, long before it arrived, which is usually a bad sign and sets the gamer up for disappointment–more often than not. In this case though, the praise was right, here is a game worth shouting about. BioShock is set in an underwater dystopian cityscape, a...