'Fancy a snog before I shoot you?'
BBC NEWS | Technology | Girl gamers who shoot first, love later
Falling in love with someone you meet online through a chatroom or dating service is so old hat. Falling in love with someone you meet online while annihilating them with a lightning gun seems much more fun. And it is happening regularly, as more women gamers set up their own clans and become serious gamers.
Amber - or Athena Twin PMS - is the 28-year-old founding member and leader of PMS - the Psychotic Men Slayerz.
They are "sugar and spice with guns" and are the largest competitive, multiplatform (Xbox Live and PS2 Online), all-female clan. "Romance happens all the time - running the largest female clan in the world I see it all day," the Texan blonde told the BBC News website.
"I don't even think people realise it happens as much - I get personal confessions and people are always coming for advice."
Some, not all, of the relationships become "intimate" online when players leave the gaming environment and go into other areas such as chatrooms. But many simply become deep friendships which may or may not grow into something. These relationships can form much faster online because conversation has no physical cue to latch onto.
One PMS clan members played with, fell in love with, moved in with, and is now engaged to a gamer she met online. Another was "lost" after her offline fiancé found out about her online gaming "affair".
Falling in love with someone you meet online through a chatroom or dating service is so old hat. Falling in love with someone you meet online while annihilating them with a lightning gun seems much more fun. And it is happening regularly, as more women gamers set up their own clans and become serious gamers.
Amber - or Athena Twin PMS - is the 28-year-old founding member and leader of PMS - the Psychotic Men Slayerz.
They are "sugar and spice with guns" and are the largest competitive, multiplatform (Xbox Live and PS2 Online), all-female clan. "Romance happens all the time - running the largest female clan in the world I see it all day," the Texan blonde told the BBC News website.
"I don't even think people realise it happens as much - I get personal confessions and people are always coming for advice."
Some, not all, of the relationships become "intimate" online when players leave the gaming environment and go into other areas such as chatrooms. But many simply become deep friendships which may or may not grow into something. These relationships can form much faster online because conversation has no physical cue to latch onto.
One PMS clan members played with, fell in love with, moved in with, and is now engaged to a gamer she met online. Another was "lost" after her offline fiancé found out about her online gaming "affair".
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