Finally, an online game for girls

I love video games and computer games in general. You can rule the world, race and appreciate the physics of a collision, or you can work out some occasional aggression with a realistic shoot 'em up or the less realistic and super cute LEGO® Star Wars.

But no one can deny that these games and virtual worlds can manipulate your senses and affect your real life reactions. I tend to feel pretty emotional when my character is losing a fight. If you've ever played HALO, you might have felt the same unwelcome rush of adrenaline that accompanies the realistic battle. (Halo is on my list of banned games.) Games are also addictive, which either means not everyone should play or that programmers might think about including some built-in timers. But, I don't have an answer for that problem. These are a few reasons why parents should pay some attention to what the kids are playing on their PS3 or xBox late at night.

Now, most of these games are aimed at males. I don't know why. It might be that the marketing surveys discovered that girls get bored more easily. Or more likely, they just don't identify so much with the male characters or scantily clad females that inhabit the majority of the games. I sometimes like to imagine that male characters are just too delicate to run around in a bathing suit, unlike the super strong females. But gaming is still young and perhaps the right game just needs to come along to entertain them. So, I just had to share this new and super fabulous online game with you: Miss Bimbo.

"Become the hottest, coolest most famous bimbo ever !"

And I thought that Barbie dolls were supposed to be bad for a impressionable girls. I'm not making this up so check it out for yourself. Although I haven't played the game, I'm feeling a strange and intense visceral reaction... I might throw up now.