Lie, bitch, and flirt your way to the top of the high school ladder

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News Release - Coolest Girl In School - a controversial mobile game likened to GTA for girls - takes on the world

source News Gallery News Release - Coolest Girl In School - a controversial mobile game likened to GTA for girls - takes on the world 05 May 2008 22:23:12 Due to popular demand Coolest Girl In School will be released internationally today via the website www.coolestgirlinschool.com The game's Adelaide based producers, Holly Owen of Champagne for the Ladies and Karyn Lanthois… Continue

Added by Janine on May 7, 2008 at 1:21am — No Comments

Coolest Girl In School gets international release on mobile

Source by Stuart Dredge Wait till the Daily Mail hears about this one... Australian mobile game Coolest Girl In School is getting an international release, on the back of the publicity around its launch Down Under last year. As we wrote at the time, the game caused a stir for its risque content (sex, drugs, violence and suicide, apparently). It was even condemned by a campaign group called The F… Continue

Added by Janine on May 7, 2008 at 1:00am — No Comments

Kukan Studio Releases Coolest Girl in School

(Source) Mobile Games Blog Kukan Studio has released what many people consider the GTA game for girls, Coolest Girl in School. In this mobile game, you need to lie, bitch and flirt your way through life. Unlike other areas of gaming, well over half (59%) of casual mobile gamers are women but very few games are made specifically for female audiences. Even fewer are made by women for women. Coolest Girl In… Continue

Added by Janine on May 6, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Coolest Girl in School: the Gossip Girl of mobile games

Tue, 05/06/2008 - 11:44am by CellGeek If you were to make the equivalent of Grand Theft Auto as a mobile game for girls, what would it look like? If the hype is to be believed the answer is "Coolest Girl in School". Basically it's a role playing game where you have to lie, bitch, and flirt to the top of the high school social ladder. Among the moments the game lets you relive is play hooking in h… Continue

Added by Janine on May 6, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

CGIS vs. DAH:CDV

CGIS vs. DAH:CDV BY ANDRW PODOLSKY It's the battle of the acronyms, and only one will be victorious! Hint: place your bets on CGIS. Coolest Girl in School is a marvel. It's funny, rude, and even a little sexy. It plays hooky during homeroom, smokes in the bathroom, and makes out at parties. It tells your parents to shove off, gets drunk at the prom, and flashes the captain of the football team. This carefree a… Continue

Added by Janine on April 14, 2008 at 1:30am — No Comments

When “Good Naughty” Girls Make Games

Reproduced from (GameSetWatch) by Drew Taylor.

-[Jump Button is a new weekly column by Drew Taylor, written specially for GameSetWatch, that focuses on the art and substance of video game culture.] The email from Holly Owen—Creative Director of cross-platform entertainment company Champagne for the Ladies—pops up on my comput… Continue

Added by Karyn Lanthois on March 11, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments

GTA For Girls

(Source) by Game Culture Consider this risk/reward scenario: spraining a wrist after vigorous masturbation. Or what about this game ending condition: death from embarrassment. These are just two mechanics described in a recent post on GameSetWatch exploring the Australian cellphone game, Coolest Girl in School. The game comes from the mind of Holly Owen and her co-designers at their company, Champagne for the Ladies. In it, players will enter… Continue

Added by Janine on March 11, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Duo show they're the coolest

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by VALERINA CHANGARATHIL

ADELAIDE mobile content developers Holly Owen and Karyn Lanthois officially launched their hot pink, girls-exclusive Coolestgirlinschool mobile game.

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Added by Janine on December 18, 2007 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Tiffany vs Ebay and The Voice Of The Tube

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Added by Janine on December 17, 2007 at 7:59pm — No Comments

Coolest Girls in School

Reproduced (Source) from www.geekillustrated.com by Camille Nurka

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Added by Janine on December 16, 2007 at 1:30pm — No Comments

How to win the high school popularity contest - Coolest Girl in the Media

Reproduced from 1up.com (Source) by Andre Podolsky

While the marketing for Coolest Girl in School calls it "Grand Theft Auto for girls," this mobile game seems to be closer in spirit to Bully, with a Seventeen Magazine makeover. The only similarities t… Continue

Added by Janine on November 28, 2007 at 8:00pm — 4 Comments

'GTA for girls' causes controversy, sky is blue - Coolest Girl in the Media

Reproduced (Source) from destructoid.com

'GTA for girls' causes controversy, sky is blue, Piplup still adorable

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Added by Janine on November 26, 2007 at 10:30am — No Comments

Editorial: Coolest Girl in School - Controversial New Game for Girls - Coolest Girl in the Media

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High School was not the most wonderful time in people’s lives, well, at least not everyday, and for a lot of people it can be considered the most miserable e

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Added by Janine on November 24, 2007 at 7:00pm — No Comments

The Coolest Girl In School, or Bully w/ a Pink Bow - Coolest Girl in the Media

Reproduced (Source) by Sara M Grimes

The Coolest Girl In School, or Bully w/ a Pink Bow

Another great article from YPulse this week, this time around a new Australian mobile game that's being promoted as "GTA for Girls". Here's an excerpt from anastasia's post:
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Added by Janine on November 23, 2007 at 7:30pm — No Comments

"GTA For Girls" A Game Of Sex, Drugs & Shoplifting

Reproduced (Source) by Michael McWhertor

While boys are into things like carjacking, beating passers-by to death and sniping the heads off of local law enforcement types, this sort of harmless fun just doesn't appeal to the fairer sex. Hence, Coolest Girl In School, which is being pitched as "Grand Theft Auto for girls" by mobile game developer Champagne for the Ladies. It replaces all that boyish drug-runn… Continue

Added by Janine on November 23, 2007 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Grand Theft Auto for Girls” Creates Controversy

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Coolest Girl in School, a mobile phone game billed by its publisher as “Grand Theft Auto for Girls”, is drawing criticism from some quarters. As reported by Canada.com:

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Added by Janine on November 23, 2007 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Game for Girls Creates Controversy: Irony or Poor Taste - Coolest Girl in the Media

Reproduced (Source) from gaygamer.net

Every since grand theft auto, making games riding controversy seems to be a guaranteed way to get free press. I'm not much for cell phone gaming personally, but creating a stir could be the best way to drum up some business. The latest game in the spotlight is the game Coolest Girl in School, a cell phone game where you "Lie, bitch, flirt your way to t

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Added by Janine on November 23, 2007 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Coolest Girl in School...In the chat room, on FaceBook on IM - Coolest Girl in the Media

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What does it take to be the coolest girl in school? Lie, cheat, flirt, engage in sexual activity, and do drugs according to a new video game targeted at teenage girls. The game, which is currently being test marketed in Australia, is a depressing statement about what today’s youth find entertaining. One would think that navigating the real life murky and turbulent waters of female adolescence w

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Added by Janine on November 22, 2007 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Video game teaches teen girls to 'lie, bitch' for popularity

Reproduced (Source) by Misty Harris, CamWest News Service

A controversial new video game for girls implies that stealing, sexual dalliances, drug use and gossiping pave the path to teenage empowerment, with the express objective being to "lie, bitch and flirt your way to the top of the high school ladder."

Coolest Girl in School is billed as the young woma

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Added by Janine on November 22, 2007 at 12:30am — No Comments

GTA for girls?

Reproduced (Source) by Jess McCabe

When I write about games aimed at girls/women, I very rarely suffer any wish to play them. Yet there is something weirdly intriguing about Coolest Girl in the School, dubbed ‘Grand Theft Auto for girls’, even if it does raise lots of red flags. (Not least of which is obviously ‘don’t girls play GTA?’)

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Added by Janine on November 21, 2007 at 12:30am — No Comments