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Article: Girls have a big slice of the computer games action; It's a myth computer games are a guy thing, says University of Huddersfield researcher Marian Carr, who is looking at why more women don't work in the booming games industry. HILARIE STELFOX reports.
- Article from:
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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Byline: HILARIE STELFOX
ALTHOUGH it would be fair to say that both of my children have played - and still play - computer games, it is my son who has been the games fanatic.
He and his friends will happily while away the hours glued to the action on the screen, thereby reinforcing the stereotype of the teenage boy at his console playing shoot 'em up and car chase games. In fact, says Marian Carr, a University of Huddersfield researcher and lecturer in games development at Bradford College, research by the games industry in America has shown that women ...