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The relationship between women and video games has received extensive academic, corporate, and social attention. Since the s, [1] female gamers have commonly been regarded as a minority, but industry surveys have shown that over time, the gender ratio has become closer to equal, and since the s, women have been found to make up about half of all gamers. Sexism in video gaming , including sexual harassment , as well as underrepresentation of women as characters in games , is an increasing topic of discussion in video game culture. Advocates for increasing the number of female gamers stress the problems attending disenfranchisement of women from one of the fastest-growing cultural realms as well as the largely untapped nature of the female gamer market.

Lora Strum Lora Strum. Lara Croft, famed video game icon, fights her way through jungles and ruins — all while sporting skimpy clothes or a bikini. The trend is most prominent in male-oriented fighting games like Mortal Kombat and games rated Teen and above. Photo by user swarm via giantbomb. As part of her doctoral project, Lynch compiled playable female characters from and examined them for signs of hypersexualization, which included nudity, over-enlarged breasts or hips and unrealistically narrow waists. Lynch found that sexualization rose to a peak in the and then declined, but games still objectify female characters more than male characters and feature them more often in secondary roles. Lynch traces big-breasted, scantily clad characters back to the origins of the gaming industry.

The portrayal of men and women in video games , as in other media, is a subject of research in gender studies and is discussed in the context of sexism in video gaming. Although women make up about half of video game players, they are significantly underrepresented as characters in mainstream games, despite the prominence of iconic heroines such as Samus Aran or Lara Croft. The portrayal of women in games often reflects traditional gender roles , sexual objectification , or stereotypes such as that of the " damsel in distress ". Male characters are often stereotypically depicted as big and muscular, and LGBT characters have been slow to appear in video games as a result of the heteronormativity of the medium.

For as long as there have been video games there have been hot female characters. Though, as graphics technology has improved these hotties have been brought to life in a way that has made us question what is real. We appreciate a good looking gaming character, and in this feature you'll find 25 of the hottest female video game characters ever designed.