Ubisoft announces Ener-G, sports games for girls

First it was the so-emo-im-cutting-myself prince of persia so I'm not surprised.

Girl on the internetz! OMGWTFBBQ!

When I have a daughter, the only games she will be allowed to play are "Chastity: Fun for all ages" and "Why I won't let you shop at Macys: The Game". Not going to have my little girl corrupted by thoughts that she might be able to own a pony, or dance in a "Dance Squad" (surely a game for heretics and sluts) no sir.

/end sarcasm

By girl games, they mean little girl games. Most little girls wouldn't be satisfied with The Guy Game or Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. Sure they are fine for boys of all ages, but girls? No. This is kinda like how they have a girls and boys section at the toy store, and why the girls section is basically one gigantic mass of solid pink. Is it sexist? Well...no, not usually, since in my experience (I shopped with my parents and sister when I was young) most girls genuinely like the pink fluffy crap in the girl section of the toy store.

Meh, who am I kidding, let's all just keep Bawwwwwing at the sexism.

I've been playing video games since I was a little girl. There was STILL no reason for this.

Nor are there trees in the laundry room.

There's nothing wrong with making games targeted at young girls. Ubisoft is trying to cater to a new audience whose needs clearly aren't being met by current offerings; gaming, especially on the DS, is extremely common for boys and girls, and is much less of a nerdy thing. These games aren't being marketed at we experienced female gamers who cut our teeth on Zelda and the like, so there's really no reason to be insulted on this aspect.

What's insulting is that little to no money or effort is put into these games, as if "games for girls" are an afterthought and an easy cash-in *because* most games are gender-neutral or targeted at boys. They're BAD GAMES, as if girls will play any old thing because they don't know better (the fact that "girl games" are generally so bad probably contributes to the trend of girls losing interest in gaming as they grow older). The Imagine Babies box art had a freaking stock photo watermark on it, FFS!