It might be time for the days of female video game characters being squeezed into Croft-tastically revealing clothing to be left behind.
Despite the gaming industry's obsession with impractically skintight and scanty female attire, a recent survey of US teenage boys has found that 47 per cent of those aged 11-14 and 61 percent of those aged 15-18 "strongly agreed" that women are objectified in games.
Girls just wanna have fun
Conducted by Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes – better known by its Mean Girls film adaptation – the survey revealed that 55 per cent of male gamers felt there should be more games starring female leads.
While the study found that a greater percentage of girls don't engage in gaming at all (19 per cent compared to a measly three), girls that do enjoy gaming aren't too different from their male counterparts, with 26 per cent playing first-person shooters, 36 per cent playing RPGs, and 17 per cent tackling sport titles.
Happily, the industry seems to be following this trend, with a tonne of games with awesome women announced at E3 2015 – we're particularly keen to see more of Horizon Zero Dawn.
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