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Interview with Raychul Moore [Gamegirls.com]

July 01, 2009 in Interview comments 9

ANdi @ Resume Play bags an interview with Raychul Moore of Gamegirl.com to dicuss the differences and challenges faced by a gaming site mainly aimed at girls, and how the female sex stand in the gaming industry.

ResumePlay: So to start off, some questions about the website?

Raychul Moore: Sure!

RP: Alright, here’s a generic one for you then. What do you think makes Gamegirl.com different from other websites?

RM: On Gamegirl.com we focus not on being a female but on just being gamers. Never will you find us pushing the fact that we are girls onto you through our articles (even though the name of our site has the word “girl” in it, that’s a whole different story). We write what we are passionate about within the industry and we do it because we love it; not because it’s a job. When hiring, I look for girls who have the knowledge and the passion first and writing ability second.

RP: Do you find that you get a different style of writing or opinion because you have an all female staff?

RM: Honestly, no not at all. The girls on GameGirl are so wildly diverse, we have the hardcore gamer, the competitive gamer, the old-school gamer, the RPG gamer and the all-around everything gamer. We cover anything and everything from hardcore shooters, to casual plat formers.
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  • 1
    kik36 Jul 1, 09
    She's pretty. Her pics are cute, but not sure if they help her cause much. LMAO The really sad thing is she looks YOUNG enough to be my daughter. )_(
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    RabidChinaGirl Jul 1, 09
    The pictures really lower her credibility for me... -_-

    Interview is shallow at best. It's a rather narrow dialogue, shedding very little light on the "girls in gaming" topic.

    Should consider asking female journalists about whether their sex seems to affect how they are treated in the industry like at conventions, in game stores, or during online gaming. Hell, you guys could've talked about how companies sponsor "female gamers" (who aren't really) so they can shove a pretty face on gaming / men's magazines and sell more issues.
    • 0
      mau64 Jul 2, 09
      I don't see why her pictures lower the cred. of her. Olivia Munn just recently posed for Playboy but people still don't question her. Morgan Webb posed for Maxim a while back, yet people still tune into X-Play daily to see her comments and Adam Sessler's (even though they are probably just reading a teleprompter.
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        RabidChinaGirl Jul 2, 09
        Morgan Webb isn't exactly a credible gaming expert either. *COUGHTYRABANKSSHOWCOUGH* And I'd like to think most people tune in to listen to Adam Sessler, not Webb, whose purpose on that show is the same as any other such generic looking female host on G4.

        Note I did say "for me," meaning not you or kik36 or anyone else. And the "why" is actually pretty obvious.
        • 0
          chautemoc Jul 2, 09
          I'd like Morgan if her voice wasn't fake/annoying as hell -- she does seem to know her stuff, if I recall correctly. I did find the Maxim thing kinda lame, but eh.

          Adam is amazing forever -- despite that, I can't stand watching X-Play anymore, the new "format" of the show makes me wanna puke.
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          Hideo1 Jul 2, 09
          It's not that she knows her stuff, it's that she can read a script. Leave her alone, like with that Tyra Banks incident, and she's like a lost puppy when it comes to gaming. Either that or the Tyra thing was just a one-time slip and she isn't actually just a pretty face plastered to entice young boys... haha, sorry, I even cracked up whilst writing that xD
  • 0
    mau64 Jul 2, 09
    I haven't watched X-Play in a long time... I get my video game show news from another source *coughCO-OPcough*
    • 0
      Hideo1 Jul 2, 09
      You seemed to use the *coughcoughcough* unnecessarily, and even is a contradictory *coughwaycough*.

      Intriguing.
  • 1
    Hideo1 Jul 2, 09
    So you try to show that gamers are no different, male or female, by pointing out that they are in fact different in the name of your website and when you get an interview with a site you pose like a wanna-be playboy model instead of doing the more reasonable thing for your cause like gaming poses?

    One step forward, two steps backwards eh

    I can imagine MLK doing that. "Whether a man's skin is black or white, we are all the same, except we are all different, and it is for the reason that we are white or black."

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