Why we need women? No men, this isn't about why you need a girlfriend to be happy in life and how to get one. No, rather this is an editorial article about why the videogame industry needs more women in it and looks at possibly why there are currently not more women in it. It seems to bring up some good points and questions, and be sure to read the comments of the editorial as well.

From the article:

Call it what you want - casual gaming, downloadable gaming, blow off a little steam in the middle of your work day gaming. Whatever it is, however you want to describe it, this industry has a problem. We don't know what women want. There are larger implications to that rather broad statement, as the male portion of this planet would be quick to tell you, but this is not The New Yorker, so I won't get into my theories about how men have ruined the world and how women can save it. What I'm talking about is an industry whose customers are predominately female but whose content creators, decision-makers and purse-string holders are overwhelmingly male.

Men (for the most part) make games. Men sit in conference rooms judging treatments, pitches and design documents. Men write these documents and pitch these pitches, and men decide to fund or not fund the development of the games they describe. 90% of development teams are men. 99% of game company CEO's are men. There's something rotten in the state of Denmark people. I've been saying it for 15 years, long before there was a casual games business: We need more women at the grass roots level of game conceptualization and development.

Read the full article over at gamezebo.com