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More Girls Get Into Gaming

Half of Wii users and majority of PC puzzle gamers are female

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 21, 2008 7:53 PM CDT

(Newser) – After years of male dominance, the video game industry is seeing a growing number of girls pick up the controllers, SiliconValley.com reports. More than half of "casual" PC card and puzzle-type game users are female, but girl-play goes further: More than half of...   Read full story »

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