Since video games first arrived, they have always been associated as a guy’s medium. New technology in general, coming out from the computer industry, has mostly been a guy’s thing, as guys have always loved working with their hands, getting them dirty in the process.
Enter the computer age, and the same guys went from working on cars and machines, to building computers. In fact, one of the first computer games, Spacewar, came to be when creator Steve Russell experimented with computer equipment he already had in his lab at M.I.T.
When we fast forward a couple of years, we find that 43% of all gamers are, in fact, women. There are also more female gamers over 18, than there are male gamers under 18. The stigma that only 15 year old boys sitting in their bedroom all day play video games isn’t the case anymore… if it were ever the case to begin with.
