I found an online paper researching the idea of gender specific games. The paper states that on average, girls and women are less involved with video games than are boys and men, and when they do play, they often prefer different games.
The paper investigated and disscussed the results of studies looking at the gaming dislikes of German Females.
One of the studies looked at an online survey cocnetrating on frequency of gameplay of certain game genres for both male and females. This study found that female respondents were less attracted to competitive elements in video games, suggesting an explanation for gender-specific game preferences.
The most popular game for males were shooter and the most popular for women were role playing. However the difference I would have expected between males and females is a lot less and women seem to show less definite preference. Therefore when testing whether there is a gender specific gaming trend these would be the 2 games used within the testing also allowing whether women are in fact displaying higher levels of interest and addiction to be established.
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