I know the Nancy Drew games are always brought up as a shining example of targeted "girl games" that work. I don't remember what TV news outlet I saw it on, but they focused on this one group of mom's and daughters who played these games together. They would all get together in one room and play the game together, solving the puzzles and just enjoying the story and experience. Interesting stuff.

Obviously I'll be getting my daughters into gaming and edu-gaming as soon as possible. I already have a good stockpile of relevant stuff in my collection across various types of systems and my first daughter, Amelie, who's 21 months now, insists on "playing" my arcade machine and loves to watch certain games (she gets quite the giggle out of "Cloning Clyde" and "Wik" on the Xbox Live Arcade) already. It will be interesting to see if my second daughter, Olivia, who should be born around early October, will eventually have the same keen interest in this stuff, but early exposure is certainly part of the battle to someone actually taking an interest in something. It gives me the warm fuzzies to think that in five years or so I'll be sitting with my girls and playing all types of videogames with them, eventually even the latest Nancy Drew or equivalent games! Who knows though, they may end up hating all that stuff eventually...

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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
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