Beyond Barbie and Mortal KombatNew Perspectives on Gender and Gaming Girls and women as game players and game designers in the new digital landscape of massively multiplayer online games, second lives, modding, serious games, and casual games. Ten years after the groundbreaking From Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate digital game play, the number of women and girl gamers has risen considerably. Despite