Topic: Oxygen Announces MyGames Series for DS

[Les Thomas]

These games for young girls set for Q3 release. Ubisoft, eat your heart out.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=16106

 Oxygen Games will publish three games for the Nintendo DS aimed at young female gamers, or at least those who will enjoy the frills undoubtedly entailed in My Make-Up, My Dress-Up, and My Secret Diary.      

Through the DS, players will get to play with virtual make-up and have make-over parties, test outfit combinations and design new clothes, or update and play in a password-protected secret diary. Players can even wirelessly connect the My Make-Up and My Dress-Up game for a full virtual make-over. There is multiplayer interaction and a chat feature included in each game. In addition, the wireless MyGames Chat works across all three games, so it is not necessary to own the same version in the series to chat with your friends.    

  Oxygen unveils first three titles in new 'MyGames' series    

My Make-Up, My Dress-Up and My Secret Diary for Nintendo DSâ„¢ - Games for girls from Oxygen's MyGames series.    

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND, June 5th, 2008 – Oxygen Games is pleased to unveil the first three titles in their MyGames series My Make-Up, My Dress-Up and My Secret Diary. Carefully crafted to suit the needs of the young and teenage gaming market, MyGames brings together personal and friendly content with real-life concepts to provide compelling entertainment for both solo and social play. The three titles, My Make-Up, My Dress-Up and My Secret Diary, aim exclusively at providing unique gaming entertainment for the young female gamer and are releasing for Nintendo DS in Q3 2008.    

My Make-Up offers players their very own make-up box on Nintendo DS, where they can makeover, pamper and facepaint themselves and their friends. My Dress-Up offers players Dressing-Up, Fashion and Design for themselves and their friends, with their very own dressing-up Box. My Secret Diary provides a place to store their secrets, keep a journal and have fun with mini-games, or send secret messages and event invitations to keep in touch with their friends. With the added benefit of all games working together with exclusive 'MyGames Chat' feature – My Make-Up, My Dress-Up and My Secret Diary will be hitting shelves in Q3 2008.

[KDR_11k]

Yeah because girls just need their games to be stupid minigames about "girly" things. No way an underage female might have the mental capacities to deal with anything that's not pink, girly and stupid.

[Mario]

Why would they want to

[Kairon]

Yeah because girls just need their games to be stupid minigames about "girly" things. No way an underage female might have the mental capacities to deal with anything that's not pink, girly and stupid.

You're implying that things like fashion and socialization aren't tests of one's mental faculties. To be sure, I've seen plenty of ineptness in both frequently, so these are not widely held skills. Do you believe that all 50's housewives were vacuous brain dead creatures too? That intelligence can only be measured by purely logical tests? Is keeping a journal some fluff endeavor that can have no benefit other than frivolity?

These are not typically masculine measures of intelligence sure. But, I am willing to give the "fairer" sex the benefit of the doubt and believe that they had brains even before the wonderful world of masculine employment was opened up to them.

[Infernal Monkey]

Oxygen's good people, they publish lots of neat stuff by no-name developers in Europe.

But this news makes the love hard to admit.

[KDR_11k]

You're implying that things like fashion and socialization aren't tests of one's mental faculties. To be sure, I've seen plenty of ineptness in both frequently, so these are not widely held skills. Do you believe that all 50's housewives were vacuous brain dead creatures too? That intelligence can only be measured by purely logical tests? Is keeping a journal some fluff endeavor that can have no benefit other than frivolity?

These are not typically masculine measures of intelligence sure. But, I am willing to give the "fairer" sex the benefit of the doubt and believe that they had brains even before the wonderful world of masculine employment was opened up to them.

You mean you're giving the developer the benefit of doubt to make something more than a stereotypical OMG PINK PONIES piece of **** with zero redeeming qualities.

[Kairon]

You mean you're giving the developer the benefit of doubt to make something more than a stereotypical OMG PINK PONIES piece of **** with zero redeeming qualities.

If that's the case, then criticize the developers directly, and don't write statements like the following that can be horribly misconstrued (bolding is mine for emphasis):

No way an underage female might have the mental capacities to deal with anything that's not pink, girly and stupid.