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X-Play’s Morgan Webb on Women in Gaming

By Alex Petraglia on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 at 5:45 PM EST  

Tracey John has posted an entertaining and insightful interview with cohost of G4TV’s X-Play, Morgan Webb at MTV’s Multiplayer gaming blog.

Webb discusses the double standards that exist toward women in the gaming industry, the most recent Jade Raymond controversy, and whether or not she feels like a representative for other female gamers.

Multiplayer: As a prominent woman in gaming, do you feel like you should be a spokesperson for women gamers?

Webb: I think that people would like me to be, and I think that I’m sort of a little bit reluctant to take that role on. People often try to get me… “Don’t you want to encourage young women to play video games?” I’m like eh. It’s not like anyone’s keeping them from playing games. They’re free to if they so choose and second of all, I think being in the gaming industry is great. There’s a lot of jobs for women, and I think that if more women are in the gaming industry, there’s going to be a lot more games for women… Men and women — and I’m an exception because I like to shoot people in the head in my video games — but they realistically like different video games.

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3 Responses to “X-Play’s Morgan Webb on Women in Gaming”

  1. Trent Polack on December 11th, 2007 7:51 pm

    I’d hit it.

  2. Matt Steele on December 11th, 2007 11:54 pm

    You think she plays halo after sex instead of smoking a cigarette?

  3. Alex Petraglia on December 12th, 2007 11:18 am

    ^^^You two are among the 0.1% that ruin it for everybody.

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