Cerise Magazine

I first learned of LesbianGamers.com through the Iris Gaming Network forums. From there I started reading their blog and occasionally popping into the forums. LesbianGamers.com is run by Angela Simpson and Tracy Whitelaw and they are based on the Gold Coast of Australia. Tracy Whitelaw, the PR Representative, talks to me about this new site made by and for lesbian gamers.
(more…)

By Richard Pilbeam

Victoria Lamb is a professional freelance stage and costume designer who has been painting, sculpting and converting fantasy miniatures since 1986. Her work has won multiple awards and been exhibited by invitation in Europe, the United States, Australia and New Caledonia. Recently she has moved into sculpting original models and also designed her own tabletop game, “Labyrintus”. You can find out more about her and view her portfolio at Victorialamb.com. (more…)

Kelley Barnes-Herrmann, who works as the Marketing Director for White Wolf and handles conventions for CCP, is an extremely busy woman. Fortunately for our readers, she was willing to take a little time out this month and answer some questions about her work and her gaming.
(more…)

In December, I was so privileged to be able to interview the daughter of Angel Munoz. Angel is the founder of the Cyberathlete Professional League, which was established in 1997. The league has as many as 10 international stops for tournaments all over the world including Asian, European and South American stops.

Angel’s adorable daughter, Gabrielle, spoke to me about how she incorporates gaming into her very well rounded life.

There were some things I picked up from conversing with her off camera, too, that might be of interest to you Halo 3 and Gabrielle fans.

Yvonna Lynn: What is your favorite gun?

Gabrielle Munoz: The needler

YL: I know you are pretty much in the beginning phases of learning to do FPS games. Do you use grenades?

GM: Well it is hard sometimes because of friendly fire which is not the most pleasant thing to do to a teammate.

YL: Do you think gaming is rather masculine?

GM: Gaming is not masculine or feminine, but most girls who don’t play think it is masculine.

YL: Do you play any other games other than FPS games? For instance, do you play any of the games traditionally made to appeal to girls?

GM: Well I like playing as a girl character in FPS games when it is an option. I also like playing things like Barbie’s adventure.

YL: Well in that sense, I guess girls get an advantage over the guys because most boys wouldn’t play those games… but girls get to play both. Gabrielle, Thank you so much for your time. I am tickled to have met such a great girl!

Video provided by Andy Whalen.

Naomi Clark is Content and Community Manager at GameLab, where she’s designed games like Miss Management and LEGO Fever . She’s previously taught history, culture, and sociology of online game worlds at Parsons School of Design, worked as an editor of the online magazine Word, and directed the popular Sissyfight 2000. She also blogs under the name Holly at Feministe and does webdesign for the transgender advocacy nonprofit Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

(more…)

Mighty Ponygirl’s Feminist Gamers started up right around the same time as Cerise and Iris started to come together, and I’ve followed the blog with considerable interest. I asked Mighty Ponygirl if she’d do an interview with us for this month’s issue, and was thrilled when she agreed. I hope you’ll all find her responses to my questions as interesting as I did.
(more…)

Pietoro, or Pai, as she is known elsewhere on the internet, has been a regular poster on the Iris forums almost since their creation. When she created a gaming blog, The Pensive Harpy, in August of this year, I immediately added it to my list of blogs to follow, and haven’t been disappointed that I did. I knew she’d have some interesting things to say in an interview, and I’m sure our readers will agree.
(more…)

After reading her book last month, I contacted Shelly Mazzanoble, author of Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress: A Girl’s Guide to the Dungeons & Dragons Game and employee of Wizards of the Coast, to ask if she might like to do an interview for Cerise. Happily, her answer was yes. I hope you all will enjoy reading what she has to say as much as I did. (more…)

When the other editors and I decided on a horror-themed issue for October, I immediately knew that I wanted to approach the bloggers at Girl in the Machine for our Blogger Interview. The blog is still pretty new – they’ve been posting since June – but their coverage of survival/horror games has been extensive and comprehensive, and I knew they’d have some interesting things to say about the genre. (more…)

Regina Buenaobra, aka. Brinstar, is video game blogger and Community Leader for Xfire. I first became aware of Regina through her blog, Acid for Blood. When Jade Reporting was looking to expand its archivers, Ariel suggested Brinstar and as one of the candidates and that’s how we officially “met”.
(more…)