Recent content by Helen Jones

Pretty worried about what MMO Champion also says - "There will be no free re-customization for characters after new character models." I think most of the updates look really good, but the female gnome is giving me some doubts, and I don't see why Blizzard would refuse an extremely basic free...

Nice ad, only think it's a slight shame they went with bro bro bro, bro bro bro bro bro, bro.

Yeah, my local's been selling them today, while a friend who works in the store has apparently been playing his since they shipped into the store a few days ago.

I eat with my knife and fork the "wrong" way around. And I am the normal right-handed, not ambidextrous, nothing. I only recently found out that you people also use your right hand with forks if you only have a fork, but if there's a fork and knife involved the knife goes on the right...

And while we're at it let's ban ugly costumes because they reinforce the stereotype of disfigurement being scary and the disfigured being dangerous. No. If you want to call me the PC brigade, sure, but that's what this is.

I have in my final years of school been advised in a lesson on how to do research - to read from left to right and to wear glasses if I need them. OT- My dad in his job has had a time where he needed to order new chairs for the office, and for people over a certain weight would need to get...

From memory Pokemon Black has a female professor juniper; in some games your rival is just the kid next door, and that depends purely on which sex you pick at the start, so the rival will be female if you play as a male. OT: Pokemon is pretty damn good at gender representation, the only...

It seems to me that I'd better go and turn myself in for all the times I've said out of anger that I was going to kill someone.

My granddad did not attend his son's/my dad's wedding because he was busy scuba-diving. I don't even. OT: If "Flexible mode will award loot with an Item Level that falls between Raid Finder and Normal quality" means what I think it does it makes the whole thing pretty redundant if you're...

I never got to a high level, and imagine I will still play, but this was my biggest problem even early on in the game. I was expecting a break from the grinding-type quests of WoW, but if anything these quests were more boring as the respawn timers were completely out. (Too many enemies...

Absolutely agreed. Matt Smith is a great actor, but the way his Doctor is written has always sat awry with me. I'm not sure how optimistic we can be though, as long as Quirky McGee the new sidekick is with the new doctor.. I doubt a push back to the more Ecclestone-grounded doctors is on its...

I disagree with you that the archer isn't sexualised.. she does look pretty awesome, and certainly is more empowering for me than the other female characters. But I still find that the picture in which she's firing her arrow has been sexualised- she's been positioned for male gaze despite her...

OT: I don't care particularly about him apologising or whether he did indeed apologise correctly. He is perfectly within his right to produce obscene caricatures, he only needs to apologise if his distasteful response to the Kotaku reporter was intently homophobic. Otherwise he dealt the man...

Just a point on the archer (Everyone seems to agree she's really quite good for a female character) I agree, she does look pretty awesome, and certainly more empowering for me than the other lot. But can I point out the picture in which she's firing her arrow- she's been positioned for male...

Female here, not sure I understand the problem. Why do they need to specifically find out what women think, they're not specifically finding out what men think of the game, are they? Surely they were going to get a random sample of gamers to beta test the game and give feedback which, being...