Geek Woman: What matches do you have coming up?
KSI Broken Angel: Every Friday and most Saturday nights we have a Siren's Slumber Party were we play any clan who wish to challenge us, or we just head into matchmaking together."

KSI Destiny: Well, right now there is a Kentucky tournament coming up, but seeing as how they have the age range set, we might not get to play that, but inside KSI we are brewing up a KSI league tournament, and hopefully it will work out.

KSI Queen: In mid-June I plan on competing in the LANWAR event in Louisville, Kentucky with a fellow KSI girl and two of my friends.

KSI Lady Zen: Well in the month of June KSI is going to be at the World Series of Video Games (www.thewsvg.com) as well as MLG Anaheim. (www.mlgpro.com)

Geek Woman: What do you think the defining issue is for female gamers today? What would you like to see from game developers?

KSI Broken Angel: I think just being accepted as an equal player. Eventually everyone will realize that girls do play video games and are just as good as the guys and therefore games will become less male orientated.

KSI Destiny: Well, the defining issue lately is getting disrespected by 'some' male gamers(and some female). Some male gamers think that only males should be allowed to play on game consoles, including PC games, as well as Xbox Live, and to bring about Xbox live they`re probably millions of harrasments and disrespectful comments made toward female gamers today. Maybe girl clans are brought about to avoid at least some of those crude moments. What I would like to see in games is for lady gamers to have the same equal freedom as male gamers. As well as to play without having to be blasted with Harrasments and disrespectful comments.

KSI Queen: The problem posing female gamers today is that there are so little female gamers compared to vast amount of male gamers. For every good female gamer there is about twenty males better than her. I wish game developers would make games the geared more on the social aspect of people. The new generation consoles are all going to be online. I think Microsoft has placed a huge emphasis on there online aspect and, with XBOX Live have created the best online gaming so far. Girls are more interested in making friends and online than boys are. I believe that is the reason that so many girls play Halo compared to other online games.

Geek Woman: Do you support more censorship in gaming?

KSI Broken Angel: To a certain degree but censorship is not only the concern of game developers but of everyone. Parents who let their young children play video games that are rated 18+ or mature need to step up and take responsibility. People can complain about the level of violence or nudity or foul language in a game that their son or daughter would be exposed to but on the case the rating is clearly displayed."

KSI Destiny: Yes, I support censorship because you never know a little kid can be playing the game...

KSI Queen: I do not believe in censorship. I believe parents should be more educated about the different types of video games and restrict their children from playing the more mature games. People are intelligent beings who should be allowed to choose for themselves what games they want to play.

KSI Lady Zen: I don't believe that its necessary to add more censorship to video games; I think the problem is the parents of these children playing the games. I think it is a real problem when the parents aren't taking into consideration what the game rating is.

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