Sexual difference in videogames analysis

Abstract

This article is the result of an investigation carried out throughout 2003 and 2004 by Leon University (Spain) on the implicit and explicit contents and values promoted by the most widely commercialised, best-sold and most used videogames among children and teenagers at the moment. The tools used in this research were questionnaires, case studies, interviews, group discussions, field observations and an exhaustive video-graphic analysis of the first three hundred best sold videogames. The main conclusion we have arrived at in our investigation is that all of the analysed commercial videogames which our young people use tend to promote a sexist culture which we can call the ‘macho culture.’ Keywords: Videogames. Children. Sexist culture.