CNN has a piece on women gamers, based partly on a party SOE threw at GDC in San Francisco last week to promote them. According to the article, 38% of all gamers are now female. Sadly, the cast of WarCry got caught in a rainstorm halfway across town and failed to make it until after the presentation had finished, so we'll let CNN tell the tale.

"Go to any video game convention and it appears quite obviously that there are more men than women in the industry," says Courtney Simmons, public relations director for SOE, who helped spearhead the G.I.R.L. program at the company's San Diego headquarters.

Speaking to an invitation-only crowd at that San Francisco bar, in town for the recent Game Developers Conference, Simmons was joined by several other women from SOE to announce the details of the program, a partnership with The Art Institutes. The program, the first of its kind, would give the winning female student currently enrolled at an Art Institute school $10,000 toward her tuition and a paid internship at one of SOE's development studios.

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